5. So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name.
6. Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!
7. “ ‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.