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He said, “I come in peace. I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

When they came,[a] he[b] saw Eliab and said, “Surely his anointed one is before Yahweh!” But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For God does not see what man sees, for a man looks on the outward appearance,[c] but Yahweh looks on the heart.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 16:6 Literally “And it happened at their coming”
  2. 1 Samuel 16:6 That is, Samuel
  3. 1 Samuel 16:7 Literally “sees as far as the eyes”
  4. 1 Samuel 16:7 Literally “sees as far as the heart”