¹⁹ Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual^(A) sacrifice. ²⁰ Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed^(B) for and gave to^[a] the Lord.” Then they would go home. ²¹ And the Lord was gracious to Hannah;^(C) she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew^(D) up in the presence of the Lord.