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15 So Samuel lay there until morning.[a] Then he opened the doors to the Lord’s house. Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision. 16 But Eli called to Samuel, “Samuel, my son!”

He said, “I am here.”

17 Eli said, “What is the message that he has spoken to you? Please do not hide it from me. May God punish you severely and double it,[b] if you hide from me one word of all of the things that he spoke to you.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 3:15 The Greek Old Testament includes a few words that are not present in the Hebrew text. These words are marked by half-brackets in the following: So Samuel lay there until morning⎣and he got up in the morning⎦ and then opened the doors of the house of the Lord. The Hebrew copyist’s eye may have jumped from the first occurrence of morning to the second.
  2. 1 Samuel 3:17 Literally thus may God do to you and thus may he add