1 Samuel 8:4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,

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1 Samuel 8:5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵and said to him, ‘You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.’

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