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 \v 9 Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Then Samuel cried out to Yahweh for Israel, and Yahweh answered him.
 
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-\v 10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines approached to attack Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a loud sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were routed before Israel.
+\v 10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines approached to attack Israel. But Yahweh thundered with a loud sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were routed before Israel.
 \v 11 The men of Israel went from Mizpah, and  they pursued the Philistines and killed them as far as below Bethcar.
 
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