³⁹ After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.

From this comes the Israelite tradition

³¹ whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph^(A) from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.^(B)”

¹⁸ But Samuel was ministering^(A) before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod.^(B)

²⁸ So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life^(A) he will be given over to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

²⁴ After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,^[a](A) an ephah^[b] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh.

²² Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present^(A) him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”^[a]

¹¹ And she made a vow,^(A) saying, “Lord Almighty^(B), if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember^(C) me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life,^(D) and no razor^(E) will ever be used on his head.”

³¹ You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates.^(A) They even burn their sons^(B) and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.^(C)