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24 When he had been weaned and was still very young,[a] Hannah took him, along with a three-year-old bull,[b] an ephah[c] of flour, and a jar of wine, and brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh. 25 They slaughtered the bull, then brought the boy to Eli.

26 “Excuse me, sir!” Hannah said. “As surely as you live, sir, I am the woman who stood here next to you, praying to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:24 Or and the boy was a boy; Heb uncertain
  2. 1 Samuel 1:24 LXX, DSS (4QSama), Syr; MT three bulls
  3. 1 Samuel 1:24 An ephah was approximately twenty quarts.

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