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But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he may appear in the presence of the Lord, and remain there forever; I will offer him as a nazirite a for all time." b23
Her husband Elkanah said to her, "Do what seems best to you, wait until you have weaned him; only—may the Lord establish his word." c So the woman remained and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
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When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, d an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. She brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh; and the child was young.
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