◄ 1 Samuel 8:17 ►
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Good News Translation
He will take a tenth of your flocks. And you yourselves will become his slaves.

New Revised Standard Version
He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.

Contemporary English Version
He will also take a tenth of your sheep and goats. You will become the king's slaves,

New American Bible
He will also tithe your flocks. As for you, you will become his slaves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

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Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

Context
Samuel's Warning
…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.18And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:16
Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.

1 Samuel 8:18
And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

1 Samuel 17:8
And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to them: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come down and fight hand to hand.

1 Samuel 8:16
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