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22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, “I will not go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and there abide for ever.”

23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, “Do what seemeth to thee good. Tarry until thou have weaned him, only the Lord establish His word.” So the woman remained, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks and one ephah of flour and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh; and the child was young.

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