The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: yearly sacrifice.
SA1 2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give
thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they
went unto their own home.
SA1 2:21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare
three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
SA1 2:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
SA1 2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of
your evil dealings by all this people.
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