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1 Samuel 16:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Samuel 16:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 He said, “Peaceably. I have come to sacrifice to the Lord; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.(A)
6 When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely his anointed is now before the Lord.”(B) 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”(C)
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