1 Samuel 1:20-25

New International Version

²⁰ So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.^(A) She named^(B) him Samuel,^[a](C) saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”

Hannah Dedicates Samuel

²¹ When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual^(D) sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vow,^{(E) 22} Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present^(F) him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”^[b]

²³ “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good^(G) his^[c] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned^(H) him.

²⁴ After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,^[d](I) an ephah^[e] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. ²⁵ When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli,