36 And everyone who is left in your house will come to bow down to him for a [a]silver coin or a loaf of bread and say, “Please [b]assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.”’”

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  1. 1 Samuel 2:36 Or payment
  2. 1 Samuel 2:36 Lit attach

36 Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead,(A) “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.(B)”’”

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29 One who (A)troubles his own house will (B)inherit wind,
And (C)the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

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29 Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind,
    and the fool will be servant to the wise.(A)

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