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20 So Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel[a] because she said, “I asked for him from the Lord.”

21 When this man Elkanah and his entire household went up to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vow, 22 Hannah did not go up with them, because she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned. Then I will bring him, so that he can appear before the Lord and remain there permanently.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew words heard by God.