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You must be loyal[a] to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the Lord’s name.[b] If I am guilty,[c] you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”

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  1. 1 Samuel 20:8 tn Heb “and you must do loyalty.”
  2. 1 Samuel 20:8 tn Heb “for into a covenant of the Lord you have brought your servant with you.”
  3. 1 Samuel 20:8 tn Heb “and if there is in me guilt.”

As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant(A) with you before the Lord. If I am guilty, then kill(B) me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”

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