Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
He will take your male and female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys to do his work.
New American Standard Bible
He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and
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.
Holman Bible
He can take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men,
A Conservative Version
And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
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.
Amplified
He will take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.
Bible in Basic English
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And your servants and your maids, and your good young men, and your asses, he will take and make for his services.
King James 2000
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He will take your male slaves and your female slaves and the best of your young men and your donkeys and {will use them for his projects}.
Modern King James verseion
And he will take your male slaves and your slave girls, and your finest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he shall take the best of your menservants and maidservants and young men, and of your asses, and do his work with them.
NET Bible
He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
New Heart English Bible
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
The Emphasized Bible
And, your men-servants, and your maidservants, and your oxen, even the goodliest, and your asses, will he take, - and put them to his work;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
Youngs 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;
Themes
Domestic Donkeys » Often taken unlawfully by corrupt rulers
Government » Mosaic » Chose, or ratified, the chief ruler
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Israel » Under the judges » Demands » King
Kings » Israel warned against seeking
Monarchy » Described by samuel
Rejection » The reward for rejecting the lord
samuel » People desire a king; he protests
Tribute » Sometimes exacted by kings from their own subjects
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 8:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Demand For A King
15 He will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his officers and servants. 16 He will take your male and female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys to do his work. 17 He will take a tenth of your flock, and you will become his servants.