1 Samuel 1:22-24

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²² 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 abide there for ever.” ²³ Elka′nah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you, wait until you have weaned him; only, may the Lord establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son, until she weaned him. ²⁴ And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull,^[a] an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine; and she brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh; and the child was young.