1And the Lord said to Samuel. How It long will you mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and come, that I may send you to Isai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

2And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he will kill me. And the Lord said: You shall take with you a calf of the herd, and you shall say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

3And you shall call Isai to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you art to do, and you shall anoint him whom I shall show to you.

4Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to him. And he came to Bethlehem, and the leaders of the city wondered, and meeting him, they said: Is your coming here peaceable?

5And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be you sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

6And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?

7And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his face, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man sees those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

8And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel. And he said: Neither has the Lord chosen this.

9And Isai brought Samma, and he said of him: Neither has the Lord chosen this.

10Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel said to Isai: The Lord has not chosen any one of these.

11And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all your sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come here.

12He sent therefore and brought him Now he was ruddy and beautiful to look, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for this is he.

13Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers and sisters: and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.

20Then you spokest in a vision to your saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.

21I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.

22For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.

27He shall cry out to me: You art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.

28And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.

23And it happened again, as the Lord walked through the corn fields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward, and to pluck the ears of corn.

24And the Pharisees said to him: Look, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

25And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he had need, and was hungry himself, and those who were with him?

26How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the bread of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him?

27And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

28Therefore the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath also.