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1 Samuel 2:16-18
New International Version - UK
1 Samuel 2:16-18
New International Version - UK
16 If the person said to him, ‘Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,’ the servant would answer, ‘No, hand it over now; if you don’t, I’ll take it by force.’
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.
18 But Samuel was ministering before the Lord – a boy wearing a linen ephod.
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- 1 Samuel 2:17 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text people
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