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17 And Shaul says to David, Behold my greater daughter Merab, I give you her to woman: only, become a son of valour for me and fight the wars of Yah Veh. And Shaul says, That my hand becomes not on him, but that the hand of the Peleshethiy becomes on him.
18 And David says to Shaul, Who am I? And what is my life? Or the family of my father in Yisra El? And that I become son in law to the sovereign?
19 And so be it, at the time to give Merab the daughter of Shaul to David, he gives her to Adri El the Mecholathiy to woman.
20 And Michal the daughter of Shaul loves David: and they tell Shaul; and the word is straight in his eyes.
21 And Shaul says, I give her to him, for a snare to him; and that the hand of the Peleshethiy be against him. So Shaul says to David a second time, This day you become my son in law.
22 And Shaul misvahs his servants, Word with David undercover, and say, Behold, the sovereign delights in you and all his servants love you: and now become son in law to the sovereign.
23 And the servants of Shaul word those words in the ears of David. And David says, Seems it trifling in your eyes to become son in law to the sovereign - seeing that I am impoverished and abased?
24 And the servants of Shaul tell him, saying, David words according to these words.
25 And Shaul says, Say thus to David: The sovereign delights not in any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Peleshethiy; to be avenged of the enemies of the sovereign. And Shaul fabricates that David fall by the hand of the Peleshethiy:
26 and his servants tell David these words; and the word is straight in the eyes of David - to be the son in law of the sovereign: but the days never fulfill.
27 And David rises and goes, he and his men, and smite two hundred men of the Peleshethiy; and David brings their foreskins; and they give them fully to the sovereign, to become son in law to the sovereign. - and Shaul gives him Michal his daughter to woman.