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Samuel Before Yahweh as a Boy

18 Now (A)Samuel was ministering before Yahweh, as a [a]young boy (B)girded with a linen ephod. 19 And his mother would make him a little (C)robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer (D)the yearly sacrifice. 20 Then Eli would (E)bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May Yahweh establish for you a seed from this woman in place of [b]the one she (F)dedicated to Yahweh.” And they went to their own [c]home.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:18 Or young man, cf. 2:17
  2. 1 Samuel 2:20 Lit the one asked for which was lent; Heb sounds like root for Samuel
  3. 1 Samuel 2:20 Lit place