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1 Samuel 2:17-19
Contemporary English Version
1 Samuel 2:17-19
Contemporary English Version
17 Eli's sons did not show any respect for the sacrifices that the people offered. This was a terrible sin, and it made the Lord very angry.
Hannah Visits Samuel
18 The boy Samuel served the Lord and wore a special linen garment[a] 19 and the clothes[b] his mother made for him. She brought new clothes every year, when she and her husband came to offer sacrifices at Shiloh.
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1 Samuel 2:17-19
New International Version
1 Samuel 2:17-19
New International Version
17 This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they[a] were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt.(A)
18 But Samuel was ministering(B) before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod.(C) 19 Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual(D) sacrifice.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 2:17 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text people
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