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1 Samuel 16:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Samuel 16:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
4 Samuel did what the Lord commanded, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?” 5 He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
6 When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is now before the Lord.”[a]
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- 1 Samuel 16:6 Heb him
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