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1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep already dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Raisins. Hebrew tsimmukim, "dried raisins "or clusters of an extraordinary size. Roger speaks of some gathered in the vale of Sorec, which weighed 25½ pounds. (the year of the Lord 1634.) Septuagint, "a gomer of dry raisins. "Syriac and Arabic, "a hundred cheeses. " Cakes. Chaldean, "pounds. "Hebrew is imperfect, two hundred. Of figs. We must supply (Calmet) cakes, with the Protestants, or pounds, with the Chaldean, (Haydock) as each of the cakes perhaps weighed so much. (Menochius)

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