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Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "{How long}[note: Literally "Until when"] will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn [with] oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."
But Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me." Yahweh said, "You must take a heifer from the herd {with you},[note: Literally "in/with your hand"] and you must say, 'I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.'