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17 Then Eli asked, “What did he say to you? Hide nothing from me! May God do thus to you, and more,[a] if you hide from me a single thing he told you.”

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Footnotes

  1. 3:17 May God do thus to you, and more: an oath formula which strengthens Eli’s demand by threatening divine punishment if Samuel does not obey. Cf. 14:44; 20:13; 25:22; 2 Sm 3:9, 35; 19:14.

17 Where you die I will die,
    and there be buried.

May the Lord do thus to me, and more, if even death separates me from you!”

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