1 Samuel 8:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
In context
14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.
15 He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
16 And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
18 When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
1 Samuel 8:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
- KJV King James Version
- And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
- WEB World English Bible
- He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men — the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your most choice young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.