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1 Samuel 8:16-18
Lexham English Bible
1 Samuel 8:16-18
Lexham English Bible
16 He will take your male slaves and your female slaves and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys and will use them for his projects.[b] 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks,[c] and you yourselves will become his servants. 18 So you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you on that day!”
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- 1 Samuel 8:16 LXX reads “cattle”
- 1 Samuel 8:16 Literally “will put them to his work”
- 1 Samuel 8:17 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
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