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1 Samuel 16:1-2
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
1 Samuel 16:1-2
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Samuel Anoints David
16 The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.’ 2 Samuel said, ‘How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me.’ And the Lord said, ‘Take a heifer with you, and say, “I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.”
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