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20 In due time,[a] Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, for she said, “I requested him from Yahweh.”

21 So the man Elkanah went up with all his household to make the annual sacrifice[b] to Yahweh and to pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear before Yahweh; and he will remain there forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Literally “At the turning of the days”
  2. 1 Samuel 1:21 Literally “to sacrifice the sacrifice of days”