21. The next time Elkanah and his family went to offer their yearly sacrifice, he took along a gift that he had promised to give to the Lord.
22. But Hannah stayed at home, because she had told Elkanah, “Samuel and I won't go until he's old enough for me to stop nursing him. Then I'll give him to the Lord, and he can stay there at Shiloh for the rest of his life.”
23. “You know what's best,” Elkanah said. “Stay here until it's time to stop nursing him. I'm sure the Lord will help you do what you have promised.” Hannah did not go to Shiloh until she stopped nursing Samuel.
24-25. When it was the time of year to go to Shiloh again, Hannah and Elkanah took Samuel to the Lord's house. They brought along a three-year-old bull, a sack containing about nine kilogrammes of flour, and a clay jar full of wine. Hannah and Elkanah offered the bull as a sacrifice, then brought the little boy to Eli.
26. “Sir,” Hannah said, “a few years ago I stood here beside you and asked the Lord
27. to give me a child. Here he is! The Lord gave me just what I asked for.
28. Now I am giving him to the Lord, and he will be the Lord's servant for as long as he lives.”Elkanah worshipped the Lord there at Shiloh, and