1 Samuel 2:17-18

New International Version

¹⁷This 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)

¹⁸But Samuel was ministering^(B) before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod.^(C)

1 Samuel 2:17-18

King James Version

¹⁷Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

¹⁸But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

¹⁷Therefore the sin of the young men was very great ^(A)before the Lord, for men ^(B)abhorred^[a] the offering of the Lord.

¹⁸^(C)But Samuel ministered before the Lord, even as a child, ^(D)wearing a linen ephod.

¹⁷Thus the sin of the young men was very great ^(A)in the sight of the Lord, ^(B)for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.

¹⁸^(C)Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy ^(D)clothed with a linen ephod.

New International Version (NIV)