11 Then Elkanah went home (A)to Ramah. (B)And the boy[a] was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:11 Hebrew na‘ar can be rendered boy (2:11, 18, 21, 26; 3:1, 8), servant (2:13, 15), or young man (2:17), depending on the context

11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah,(A) but the boy ministered(B) before the Lord under Eli the priest.

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11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.

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18 (A)Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy (B)clothed with a linen ephod.

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18 But Samuel was ministering(A) before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod.(B)

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18 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

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