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1 Samuel 3:1-3
New Living Translation
1 Samuel 3:1-3
New Living Translation
The Lord Speaks to Samuel
3 Meanwhile, the boy Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli. Now in those days messages from the Lord were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon.
2 One night Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed. 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was sleeping in the Tabernacle[a] near the Ark of God.
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- 3:3 Hebrew the Temple of the Lord.
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