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The Child Samuel at Shiloh

18 Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy girded with a linen ephod.[a] 19 And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 Then Eli would bless Elka′nah and his wife, and say, “The Lord give you children by this woman for the loan which she lent to[b] the Lord”; so then they would return to their home.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.18 ephod: The ephod was either a distinctive priestly garment as here, or a means of divination used by the priest, possibly a container for the sacred lots; cf. 2.28.
  2. 1 Samuel 2:20 Or for the petition which she asked of

26 Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and with men.

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