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1 Samuel 2:16-18
International Standard Version
1 Samuel 2:16-18
International Standard Version
16 If the man told him[a], “They must surely[b] burn up the fat first, and then take for yourself whatever[c] you desire,” the servant would say, “No,[d] give it now, and if you don’t,[e] I’ll take it by force!”[f] 17 By doing this, the sin of the young men was very serious in the Lord’s sight because the men[g] despised the Lord’s offering.
Samuel at Shiloh
18 Now Samuel was ministering in the Lord’s presence, as a boy wearing a linen ephod.[h]
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- 1 Samuel 2:16 So MT; 4QSama reads man answered and told the priest’s servant; LXX reads man who was making the sacrifice told him
- 1 Samuel 2:16 So MT; 4QSama reads Let the priest LXX reads Let him
- 1 Samuel 2:16 So MT; 4QSama LXX read everything
- 1 Samuel 2:16 Lit. Rather
- 1 Samuel 2:16 So MT LXX; 4QSama now, or
- 1 Samuel 2:16 So MT LXX; 4QSama reads now, or I’ll take the ram by force to give him the meat
- 1 Samuel 2:17 So MT; 4QSama LXX read because they
- 1 Samuel 2:18 The ephod was a type of vest normally worn by the Levite priests.
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