Bible in Basic English
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,
So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.
Then Samuel, after hearing all the people had to say, went and gave an account of it to the Lord.
And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to their voice and make a king for them. Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let every man go back to his town.
— 1 Samuel 8:13-1964, Bible in Basic English
“And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 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. He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day. But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Jehovah. And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city. ”
And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.
And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;
And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,
So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.
Then Samuel, after hearing all the people had to say, went and gave an account of it to the Lord.
And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to their voice and make a king for them. Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let every man go back to his town.