1 Samuel 2:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to day according to the custom, and then take as much as thy soul desireth. But he answered and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt give it me now, or else I will take it by force.

¹⁷ Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.