If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;”
then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
The sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for the men despised the LORD’s offering.
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
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.
