¹ The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.

⁹ We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

¹¹ Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

¹¹ Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of Yahweh.

¹² They will wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, And will not find it.

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

²¹ Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.

¹⁵ Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

¹² I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.