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1 Samuel 8:9-14 Modern English Version (MEV)

9. Now then, obey their voice. Only you will testify against them and proclaim to them the judgment concerning the king who will reign over them.”

10. So Samuel said all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking from him a king.

11. And he said, “This will be the judgment concerning the king who will reign over you: Your sons he will take in order to place them for himself in his chariots and as his horsemen, and they will run before his chariot,

12. and in order to assign for himself captains of thousands and captains of fifties, and to plow his ground, and to gather in his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and the equipment of his chariots.

13. And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.

14. And your choicest fields, and vineyards, and olive groves he will take and give them to his servants.

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