13 For the Priests’ custom toward the people was this: when any man offered sacrifice, the Priest’s [a]boy came, while the flesh was seething, and a fleshhook with three teeth in his hand,

14 And thrust it into the kettle, or into the caldron, or into the pan, or into the pot: [b]all that the fleshhook brought up, the Priest took for himself: thus they did unto all the Israelites, that came thither to Shiloh.

15 Yea, before they burnt the [c]fat, the Priest’s boy came and said unto the man that offered, Give me flesh to roast for the Priest: for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:13 Or, son.
  2. 1 Samuel 2:14 Transgressing the order appointed in the Law, Lev. 7:31, for their belly’s sake.
  3. 1 Samuel 2:15 Which was commanded first to have been offered to God.

13 Now it was the practice(A) of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat(B) was being boiled 14 and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. 15 But even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast; he won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

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