1 Samuel 1:19-21

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Samuel Is Born to Hannah

¹⁹The family got up early the next morning, worshiped before the Lord, and returned to their home in Ramah. Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her [prayer]. ²⁰It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; she named him ^[a]Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”

²¹Then the man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer to the Lord the ^[b]yearly sacrifice and pay his vow.

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 1:20 The name possibly means “The Name [i.e. Yahweh, Lord] is God” or “His name is God,” but the etymology is uncertain.
1 Samuel 1:21 Lit sacrifice of days.