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# Connecting Statement:
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The man of God continues to speak to Eli.
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# Why, then, do you scorn my sacrifices ... live?
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This rhetorical question is a rebuke. It can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "You should not scorn my sacrifices ... where I live." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# the place where I live
"the place where my people bring offerings to me"
# making yourselves fat with the best of every offering
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The best part of the offering was to be burned up as an offering to Yahweh, but the priests were eating it.