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

Context
Samuel's Warning
15Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants. 16Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.17Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.…
Cross References
Luke 12:45
But if that servant shall say in his heart: My Lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

1 Samuel 8:15
Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.

1 Samuel 8:17
Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

Lexicon
And
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

he will take
יִקָּ֑ח (yiq·qāḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

your menservants
עַבְדֵיכֶם֩ (‘aḇ·ḏê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5650: Slave, servant

and
וְֽאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

maidservants
שִׁפְח֨וֹתֵיכֶ֜ם (šip̄·ḥō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8198: Maid, maidservant

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

your best
הַטּוֹבִ֛ים (haṭ·ṭō·w·ḇîm)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

cattle
בַּחוּרֵיכֶ֧ם (ba·ḥū·rê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 970: Selected, a youth

and donkeys
חֲמוֹרֵיכֶ֖ם (ḥă·mō·w·rê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2543: A male ass

and put [them]
וְעָשָׂ֖ה (wə·‘ā·śāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

to his own use.
לִמְלַאכְתּֽוֹ׃ (lim·laḵ·tōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4399: Deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property


Additional Translations
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your best young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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;
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