1 Samuel 8:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ “A king will take your men and women servants. He will take your best cattle [90] and your donkeys. He will use them all for his own work.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ He will take your men and women servants and the best of your cattle and your donkeys and put them to his work.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He will take your male and female servants, along with the best of your cattle and donkeys, and make them do his work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Then, too, he will take your servants, and handmaids, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and he will set them to his work.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.

1 Samuel 8:16 Cross References

Luke 12:45

But what will happen if that servant is evil and thinks that his master will not come back soon? That servant will begin to beat the other servants, men and women. He will eat and drink and get drunk.

1 Samuel 8:15

He will take one tenth of your grain and grapes. He will give these things to his officers and servants.

1 Samuel 8:17

And he will take one tenth of your flocks.