## Why, then, do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings that I required in the place where I live? ##

AT: "You scorn my sacrifices ...!" This question is a rebuke.  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## the place where I live ##

AT: "the place where my people bring offerings to me"

## making yourselves fat with the best of every offering ##

The best part of the offering was to be burned up as an offering to Yahweh, but the priests were eating it.

## the house of your ancestor ##

See the note in [1 Samuel 2:27](./27.md) and how you translated it there.

## walk before me ##

This does not mean people physically walking in front of Yahweh, but that they would have a close relationship with him under his care.  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## Far be it from me to do this ##

AT: "I will certainly not do this!"

## lightly esteemed ##

AT: "dishonored"