⁵ And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

³ Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman, but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.