◄ 1 Samuel 8:16 ►
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Good News Translation
He will take your servants and your best cattle and donkeys, and make them work for him.

New Revised Standard Version
He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work.

Contemporary English Version
The king will take your slaves and your best young men and your donkeys and make them do his work.

New American Bible
He will take your male and female slaves, as well as your best oxen and donkeys, and use them to do his work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.

Context
Samuel's Warning
…15Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants. 16Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.17Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.…
Cross References
Luke 12:45
But if that servant shall say in his heart: My Lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

1 Samuel 8:15
Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.

1 Samuel 8:17
Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

1 Samuel 8:15
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