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12 Hannah prayed to Jehovah for a long time. Eli watched her lips.
13 She prayed silently. Her lips were moving, but she made no sound. So Eli thought that she was drunk.
14 He said to her: »Stop making a drunken show of yourself! Stop your drinking and sober up!«
15 »No, I am not drunk,« she answered. »I have not been drinking! I am desperate. I have prayed and poured out my troubles to Jehovah.
16 »Do not consider your maidservant a worthless woman. I pray like this because I am miserable and filled with grief.«
17 Eli answered: »Go in peace. May the God of Israel give you what you have asked of him.«
18 »Let your maidservant find favor in your sight,« she replied. Then she went away, ate some food, and was no longer sad (self-concerned).
19 The next morning Elkanah and his family got up early. After worshiping Jehovah, they went back home to Ramah. Elkanah had intercourse with his wife Hannah and Jehovah answered her prayer.
20 So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel. She explained: »I asked Jehovah for him.«
21 The time came again for Elkanah and his family to go to Shiloh and offer to Jehovah the yearly sacrifice and the special sacrifice he promised.
22 This time Hannah did not go. She told her husband: As soon as the child is weaned, I will take him to the Temple of Jehovah, where he will stay all his life.
23 Elkanah answered: »All right, do what seems best to you. Stay at home until you have weaned him. May Jehovah make your promise come true.« So Hannah stayed at home and nursed her child.
24 After she weaned him she took him to Shiloh. She also took a three-year-old bull, a bushel of flour, and a leather bag full of wine. She took Samuel, young as he was, to the Temple of Jehovah at Shiloh.
25 First they slaughtered the bull. Then they took the child to Eli the priest.
26 Hannah said to him: »My lord. Do you remember me? I am the woman you saw standing here, praying to Jehovah.
27 »I asked him for this child. He gave me what I asked of him.
28 »So I am dedicating (giving) (granting) him to Jehovah. As long as he lives, he will belong to Jehovah.« Then they worshiped Jehovah there.