1 Samuel 2:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Child Samuel at Shiloh

¹⁸ Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod. ¹⁹ His mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. ²⁰ Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, ‘May the Lord repay^[a] you with children by this woman for the gift that she made to^[b] the Lord’; and then they would return to their home.