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11 (A)Lord All-Powerful, I am your servant, but I am so miserable! Please let me have a son. I promise to give him to you for as long as he lives, and his hair will never be cut.”[a]

12-13 Hannah prayed silently to the Lord for a long time. But her lips were moving, and Eli thought she was drunk.

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  1. 1.11 his hair … cut: Never cutting the child's hair would be a sign that he would belong to the Lord (see Numbers 6.1,21, especially verse 5).

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