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34 Here’s a sign for you—your two sons Hophni and Phineas will both die on the same day! 35 And I’ll raise up for myself a faithful[a] priest who will do according to what is in my heart and according to my desire. I’ll build for him an enduring[b] house and he will walk before my anointed one forever. 36 Anyone who remains in your family will come and prostrate themselves before him for a small wage[c] or a loaf of bread and will say,[d] “Please put me in one of the priest’s offices so I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:35 Or an enduring; MT word translated faithful here is translated enduring later in this verse.
  2. 1 Samuel 2:35 Or faithful; MT word translated enduring here is translated faithful earlier in this verse.
  3. 1 Samuel 2:36 Lit. a payment of silver
  4. 1 Samuel 2:36 So MT; 4QSama LXX read bread, saying