These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 8
Tanakh 22 verses
- 1 And it came to pass, when was old, that he made his sons judges over .
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Now the of his first-born was ; and the of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.
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- 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
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Then all the elders of gathered themselves together, and came to unto Ramah.
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And they said unto him: ‘Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways; now make us a to judge us like all the nations.’
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- 6 But the thing displeased , when they said: ‘Give us a to judge us.’ And prayed unto .
- 7 And said unto : ‘Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not be over them.
- 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of even unto this day, in that they have forsaken Me, and served other Elohims, so do they also unto thee.
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Now therefore hearken unto their voice; howbeit thou shalt earnestly forewarn them, and shalt declare unto them the manner of the that shall reign over them.’
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- 10 And told all the words of unto the people that asked of him a .
- 11 And he said: ‘This will be the manner of the that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots.
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And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
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- 13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
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And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
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- 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.
- 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks; and ye shall be his servants.
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And ye shall cry out in that day because of your whom ye shall have chosen you; and will not answer you in that day.’
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But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of ; and they said: ‘Nay; but there shall be a over us;
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- 20 that we also may be like all the nations; and that our may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.’
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And heard all the words of the people, and he spoke them in the ears of .
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And said to : ‘Hearken unto their voice, and make them a .’ And said unto the men of : ‘Go ye every man unto his city.’
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