1 Samuel 10:8
Good News Translation
You will go ahead of me to Gilgal, where I will meet you and offer burnt sacrifices and fellowship sacrifices. Wait there seven days until I come and tell you what to do."

New Revised Standard Version
And you shall go down to Gilgal ahead of me; then I will come down to you to present burnt offerings and offer sacrifices of well-being. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”

Contemporary English Version
Then go to Gilgal. I'll come a little later, so wait for me. It may even take a week for me to get there, but when I come, I'll offer sacrifices to please the LORD and to ask for his blessings. I'll also tell you what to do next.

New American Bible
Now go down ahead of me to Gilgal, for I shall come down to you, to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice communion offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you; I shall then tell you what you must do.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down to thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of peace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew thee what thou art to do.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down to thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of peace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew thee what thou art to do.

to Gilgal

1 Samuel 11:14,15 And Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Galgal, and let us renew the kingdom there. . . .

1 Samuel 13:4,8-15 And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten the garrison of the Philistines: and Israel took courage against the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Galgal. . . .

1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

Context
Samuel Anoints Saul
7When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do whatsoever thy hand shall find, for the Lord is with thee. 8And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down to thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of peace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew thee what thou art to do.
Cross References
Leviticus 3:9
And they shall offer of the victim of peace offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord: the fat and the whole rump,

1 Samuel 11:14
And Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Galgal, and let us renew the kingdom there.

1 Samuel 11:15
And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul king, before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of peace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.

1 Samuel 13:8
And he waited seven days, according to the appointment of Samuel, and Samuel came not to Galgal, and the people slipt away from him.

1 Samuel 10:7
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