First Book of Kings (Author Compiled by Isaias from records of Samuel, David, Nathan, and Gad.)
16:2And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he will kill me. And the Lord said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of the herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
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