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1 Samuel 8:17

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He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.

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14He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
15He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
16He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
17He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
18You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

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