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22 Hannah didn’t go.

“I’ll bring the boy when he is weaned,” she told her husband, “so he can be presented to the Lord and stay there permanently. I will offer him as a nazirite forever.”[a]

23 “Do what seems best to you,” said her husband Elkanah. “Stay here until you’ve weaned him. But may the Lord bring to pass what you’ve[b] promised.” So the woman stayed home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

24 When he had been weaned and was still very young,[c] Hannah took him, along with a three-year-old bull,[d] an ephah[e] of flour, and a jar of wine, and brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:22 DSS (4QSama); MT lacks I will offer… forever.
  2. 1 Samuel 1:23 LXX, DSS (4QSama); MT he
  3. 1 Samuel 1:24 Or and the boy was a boy; Heb uncertain
  4. 1 Samuel 1:24 LXX, DSS (4QSama), Syr; MT three bulls
  5. 1 Samuel 1:24 An ephah was approximately twenty quarts.

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