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If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
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The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.
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But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
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Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
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Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
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Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
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Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.
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He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
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No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.
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If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
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The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.