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23 So her husband Elkanah said to her, “Do what seems right to you;[a] stay until you wean him. Only may Yahweh fulfill his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24 Then she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, along with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin[b] of wine. She brought him to the house of Yahweh at Shiloh while the boy was still young. 25 They slaughtered the bull, and they brought the boy to Eli.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:23 Literally “do what is good in your eyes”
  2. 1 Samuel 1:24 Or “a clay jar”