1 Samuel 8:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.

New Living Translation
He will take your male and female slaves and demand the finest of your cattle and donkeys for his own use.

English Standard Version
He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

Berean Study Bible
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.

New American Standard Bible
He will also take your male servants and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and use them for his work.

NASB 1995
"He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.

NASB 1977
“He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys, and use them for his work.

Amplified Bible
He will take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.

Christian Standard Bible
He can take your male servants, your female servants, your best cattle, and your donkeys and use them for his work.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He can take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys and use them for his work.

Contemporary English Version
The king will take your slaves and your best young men and your donkeys and make them do his work.

Good News Translation
He will take your servants and your best cattle and donkeys, and make them work for him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will take your male and female slaves, your best cattle, and your donkeys for his own use.

International Standard Version
He will take your male and female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys to do his work.

NET Bible
He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

New King James Version
And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

King James 2000 Bible
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

New Heart English Bible
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best cattle, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

World English Bible
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

American King James Version
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your best young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
And he will take your male slaves and your slave-girls, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

Darby Bible Translation
And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.

English Revised Version
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your most choice young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And he will take your men seruants, and your maide seruants, and the chiefe of your yong men, and your asses, and put them to his worke.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And he shal take your men seruauntes, and maide seruauntes, young men, and the chiefe of your asses, and put them to his worke.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And youre seruautes and youre maydes, and youre best yonge men, and youre asses shal he take, and do his busynes withall.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And your menservants and your maidservants, and the best of your young men and your donkeys, he takes, and has prepared for his own work;

Young's Literal Translation
And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men -- the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work;

Smith's Literal Translation
And your servants and your maids, and your good young men, and your asses, he will take and make for his services.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Then, too, he will take your servants, and handmaids, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and he will set them to his work.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And your Servants and your Maids and your beautiful young men and your donkeys he will take and he will make his Servants

Lamsa Bible
And he will take your menservants and your maidservants, and your goodly young men and your asses, and put them to his work.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he will take your servants, and your handmaids, and your good herds and your asses, and will take the tenth of them for his works.
















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