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20 and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[a] for she said, “I asked the Lord for him.”

21 The next year Elkanah and his family went on their annual trip to offer a sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go. She told her husband, “Wait until the boy is weaned. Then I will take him to the Tabernacle and leave him there with the Lord permanently.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew term for “asked of God” or “heard by God.”
  2. 1:22 Some manuscripts add I will offer him as a Nazirite for all time.

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