Sinai1 Samuel 8:17
American Standard Version
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.
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1 Samuel 8:17 in other translations
He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
1 Samuel 8:17 in context
- 15And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
- 16And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
- 17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.
- 18And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.
- 19But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us,