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Now the boy Samuel was serving Yahweh {in the presence}[note: Literally "in the face of"] of Eli. The word of Yahweh was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.
{And then}[note: Literally "And it happened"] one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun [to grow] weak so that he was not able to see)