Catholic Public Domain Version
"My sons, do not be willing. For it is no good report that I am hearing, so that you would cause the people of the Lord to transgress. "
— 1 Samuel 2:24, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.”
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah’s people to transgress. ”
“No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.”
“No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.”
“Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.”
“No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.”
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.”
Then the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the youth Samuel was magnified with the Lord.
Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all of Israel, and how they were sleeping with the women who were waiting at the door of the tabernacle.
And he said to them: “Why are you doing these kinds of things, very wicked things, that I have heard from all the people?
My sons, do not be willing. For it is no good report that I am hearing, so that you would cause the people of the Lord to transgress.
If a man has sinned against a man, God may be able to be appeased over him. But if a man has sinned against the Lord, who will pray for him?” But they did not listen to the voice of their father, that the Lord was willing to kill them.
But the youth Samuel advanced, and grew up, and he was pleasing to the Lord, as well as to men.
Then a man of God went to Eli, and he said to him: “Thus says the Lord: Was I not revealed openly to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?