1 Samuel 1
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1 Samuel 1:22-28

22but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”1

23“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.”2

So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

24Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull,3 an ephah of flour,4 and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. 25And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.

26“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. 27I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him, 28I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.”

So they worshiped5 the LORD there.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Samuel 1:22 MT; DSS include I will offer him as a Nazirite for all time. ↩
  2. 2. 1 Samuel 1:23 MT; DSS, LXX, and Syriac your word ↩
  3. 3. 1 Samuel 1:24 DSS, LXX, and Syriac; MT three bulls ↩
  4. 4. 1 Samuel 1:24 An ephah is approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters (probably about 25.5 pounds or 11.6 kilograms of flour). ↩
  5. 5. 1 Samuel 1:28 One DSS manuscript; MT he worshiped ↩

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