16And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.
17And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.
18But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.
19And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.
20And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.
21And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.
22Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
