1 Samuel 1:21-28

New International Version

Hannah Dedicates Samuel

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

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^(D) his^[b] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned^(E) him.

²⁴ After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,^[c](F) an ephah^[d] 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, ²⁶ and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. ²⁷ I prayed^(G) for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. ²⁸ So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life^(H) he will be given over to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.