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When they came, he looked on (A)Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.” But the Lord said to Samuel, (B)“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, (C)but the Lord looks on the heart.” Then Jesse called (D)Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”

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