The King James Version Bible

1 Samuel 2:16-19

  1. And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

  2. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

  3. But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

  4. Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.