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Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit thou shalt protest solemnly unto them, and shalt show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
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And Samuel told all the words of Jehovah unto the people that asked of him a king.
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And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
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and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
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And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
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And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
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And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
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He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.
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And 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.
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But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us,