18But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.


In Context

15 Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came, and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.

16 And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to day according to the custom, and then take as much as thy soul desireth. But he answered and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt give it me now, or else I will take it by force.

17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.

18 But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.

19 And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the solemn sacrifice.

20 And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The Lord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord. And they went to their own home.

1 Samuel 2:18 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:18But Samuel was ministering before the Lord -a boy wearing a linen ephod.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child, girded with a linen ephod.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:18But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18And Samuel is ministering in the presence of Jehovah, a youth girt with an ephod of linen;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.