20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife:(A) “May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she[a] has given to the Lord.”(B) Then they would go home.

21 The Lord paid attention to Hannah’s need,(C) and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:20 DSS; MT reads he

20 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children by this woman (A)for the petition she asked of the Lord.” So then they would return to their home.

21 (B)Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. (C)And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.

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