23 So (A)Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him. Only let the Lord [a]establish [b]His word.” Then the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:23 confirm
  2. 1 Samuel 1:23 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX, Syr. your

23 “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good(A) his[a] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned(B) him.

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:23 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac your

25 “Now, O Lord God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as You have said.

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25 “And now, Lord God, keep forever the promise(A) you have made concerning your servant and his house. Do as you promised,

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Keeping the Word

27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, (A)“Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”

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27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”(A)

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19 But (A)woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

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19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!(A)

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26 (A)Who confirms the word of His servant,
And performs the counsel of His messengers;
Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’
To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’
And I will raise up her waste places;

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26 who carries out the words(A) of his servants
    and fulfills(B) the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem,(C) ‘It shall be inhabited,’
    of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’
    and of their ruins,(D) ‘I will restore them,’(E)

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(A)But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.

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Yet you brought me out of the womb;(A)
    you made me trust(B) in you, even at my mother’s breast.

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17 Then Eli answered and said, (A)“Go in peace, and (B)the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him.”

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17 Eli answered, “Go in peace,(A) and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.(B)

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and her husband hears it, and makes no response to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand. But if her husband (A)overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the Lord will release her.

“Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.

10 “If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath, 11 and her husband heard it, and made no response to her and did not overrule her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand.

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and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. But if her husband(A) forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the Lord will release her.(B)

“Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.

10 “If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath 11 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.

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She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? (A)For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Hagar and Ishmael Depart(B)

So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.

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And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”(A)

Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

The child grew and was weaned,(B) and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.

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