22 but Hannah did not go. "After the boy is weaned," she said to her husband, "I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently."1:22 MT; DSS include I will offer him as a Nazirite for all time.
23 "Do what you think is best," her husband Elkanah replied, "and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word."1:23 MT; DSS, LXX, and Syriac your word
So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
24 Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull,1:24 DSS, LXX, and Syriac; MT three bulls an ephah of flour,1:24 An ephah is approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters (probably about 25.5 pounds or 11.6 kilograms of flour). and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.
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