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Now Eli was very old. He heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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He said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
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No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.
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If one person sins against another, someone can intercede for the sinner with the Lord; a but if someone sins against the Lord, who can make intercession?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father; for it was the will of the Lord to kill them.
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