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And he standeth and calleth unto the ranks of Israel, and saith to them, `Why are ye come out to set in array the battle? [am] not I the Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose for you a man, and let him come down unto me;
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if he be able to fight with me, and have smitten me, then we have been to you for servants; and if I am able for him, and have smitten him, then ye have been to us for servants, and have served us.'
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And the Philistine saith, `I have reproached the ranks of Israel this day; give to me a man, and we fight together.'
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And Saul heareth -- and all Israel -- these words of the Philistine, and they are broken down and greatly afraid.
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And David [is] son of this Ephrathite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, whose name [is] Jesse, and he hath eight sons, and the man in the days of Saul hath become aged among men;
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and the three eldest sons of Jesse go, they have gone after Saul to battle; and the name of his three sons who have gone into battle [are] Eliab the first-born, and his second Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
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And David is the youngest, and the three eldest have gone after Saul,
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and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
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And the Philistine draweth nigh, morning and evening, and stationeth himself forty days.
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And Jesse saith to David his son, `Take, I pray thee, to thy brethren, an ephah of this roasted [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
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and these ten cuttings of the cheese thou dost take in to the head of the thousand, and thy brethren thou dost inspect for welfare, and their pledge dost receive.'