Sinai1 Samuel 8:17
World English Bible
He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
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1 Samuel 8:17 in other translations
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.
1 Samuel 8:17 in context
- 15He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
- 16He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
- 17He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
- 18You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
- 19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,