16Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.


In Context

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.

15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.

16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.

17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the Lord will not answer you in that day."

1st Samuel 8:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:16Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your best young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.