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ADONAI said to Sh'mu'el, "Listen to the people, to everything they say to you; for it is not you they are rejecting; they are rejecting me; they don't want me to be king over them.
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They are doing to you exactly what they have been doing to me, from the day I brought them out of Egypt until today, by abandoning me and serving other gods.
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So do what they say, but give them a sober warning, telling them what kinds of rulings their king will make."
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Sh'mu'el reported everything ADONAI had said to the people asking him for a king.
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He said, "Here is the kind of rulings your king will make: he will draft your sons and assign them to take care of his chariots, be his horsemen and be bodyguards running ahead of his chariots.
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He will appoint them to serve him as officers in charge of a thousand or of fifty, plowing his fields, gathering his harvest, and making his weapons and the equipment for his chariots.
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He will take your daughters and have them be perfume-makers, cooks and bakers.
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He will expropriate your fields, vineyards and olive groves - the very best of them! - and hand them over to his servants.
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He will take the ten-percent tax of your crops and vineyards and give it to his officers and servants.
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He will take your male and female servants, your best young men and your donkeys, and make them work for him.
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He will take the ten-percent tax of your flocks, and you will become his servants.