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1 Samuel 8:16-18
New English Translation
1 Samuel 8:16-18
New English Translation
16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use. 17 He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants. 18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.”[a]
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- 1 Samuel 8:18 tc The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”
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