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Samuel asked, ‘How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me! ’

The Lord answered, ‘Take a young cow with you and say, “I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.”(A) Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will let you know what you are to do.(B) You are to anoint for me the one I indicate to you.’(C)

Samuel did what the Lord directed and went to Bethlehem.(D) When the elders of the town met him, they trembled[a] and asked, ‘Do[b] you come in peace? ’(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:4 LXX reads were astonished
  2. 16:4 DSS, LXX read ‘Seer, do