[This translation omits this verse.]

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I will send you to Jesse, to Bethlehem; for I have seen among his sons a king for Me.

And one of his servants answered and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, and he understands playing [on the harp], and the man is prudent, and a warrior, and wise in speech, and the man is handsome, and the Lord is with him.

And Obed begot Jesse; and Jesse begot David.

and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.

the [son] of Melea, the [son] of Menan, the [son] of Mattathah, the [son] of Nathan, the [son] of David,

the [son] of Jesse, the [son] of Obed, the [son] of Boaz, the [son] of Salmon, the [son] of Nahshon,

So Rachel died, and was buried in the way of the course of Ephratha, (that is, Bethlehem.)

Behold, we heard of it in Ephratha; we found it in the fields of the wood.

And you, Bethlehem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Judah; yet out of you shall one come forth to Me, to be a ruler of Israel; and His goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East arrived in Jerusalem,

'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come forth a Ruler who will shepherd My people Israel.'"

And Jesse caused his seven sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said, the Lord has not chosen these.

And Samuel said to Jesse, Have you no more sons? And Jesse said, [There is] yet a little one; behold, he tends the flock. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him, for we may not sit down till he comes.

And Jesse begot his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab [was] his second, Shimea the third,

Ozem the sixth, [and] David the seventh.