1 Samuel 8:16

He will … put them to his work. Again the hateful forced service, but here not, as in 1 Samuel 8:12 , of themselves, but of their households. Instead of your goodliest young men the Septuagint reads, "your best oxen ," which requires only the change of one letter, and is in agreement with the rest of the verse. Samuel would scarcely place their choicest young men between the female slaves and the asses. But while the ass was used chiefly for riding, the ox was, as he still continues to be upon the Continent, man's most faithful and valued friend and fellow labourer.