19 Each year his mother made him a little robe(A) and took it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.(B) 20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife:(C) “May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she[a] has given to the Lord.”(D) Then they would go home.

21 The Lord paid attention to Hannah’s need,(E) and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:20 DSS; MT reads he

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