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1 Samuel 1:24-28

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24After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text with three bulls an ephah That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. 25When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, 26and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD . 27I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. 28So now I give him to the LORD . For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD .” And he worshiped the LORD there.