22 ¶ So Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how they lay with the women that [a]assembled at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for of all this people I hear evil reports of you.

24 Do no more, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, which is, that ye make the Lord’s people to [b]trespass.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:22 Which was (as the Hebrews write) after their travail, when they came to be purified, read Exod. 38:8; Lev. 12:6.
  2. 1 Samuel 2:24 Because they contemn their duty to God, verse 17.

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