Translations
Modern
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
Traditional
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
Literal
And it will come to pass that everyone remaining in your house will come to bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and he will say: Put me, please, in one of the priestly positions, that I may eat a morsel of bread.’
Latin
Futurum est autem, ut quicumque remanserit in domo tua, veniat ut oretur pro eo, et offerat nummum argenteum, et tortam panis, dicatque: Dimitte me, obsecro, ad unam partem sacerdotalem, ut comedam buccellam panis.
Original
Hebrew
English
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
Notes
Theme notes and profiles
Glossary
Eli Phinehas Priests and Levites Samuel (Person) Samuel, Books of First and Second Zadok
Topics
Bread: (Seeking of Begging) Extreme Poverty Bread: Sacrificed Eli: Prophecies of Judgments Upon his House Hophni: Sin of Judgments: Eli's House Money was Given: As Alms Parents: Indulgent: Eli Parents: Involved in Children's Wickedness Priest: To Designate Subordinate Priests for Duty The High Priest: Duties of Appointing Priests to offices The High Priest: Family of Eli Degraded from office of, for Bad Conduct