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33 Someone[a] reported this to Saul: “Right now the army is sinning against the Lord by eating meat[b] with the blood.” He said, “You have acted treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today.”

34 Then Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the soldiers and say to them, ‘Let each man bring his ox and his sheep to me, and you are to slaughter them here and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating meat[c] with the blood.’” So every soldier brought his ox with him that night, and they slaughtered them there. 35 Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 14:33 Lit. They
  2. 1 Samuel 14:33 The Heb. lacks meat
  3. 1 Samuel 14:34 The Heb. lacks meat