The Lord of Hosts, if You Will Look on the Fliction of Your Maidservant and Remember Me, and Will Not Forget Your Maidenservant, I Will Give Him to the Lord All the Days of His Life.

Hannah vowed to give her maidservant a son, and no razor shall touch his head. As she continued praying before the lord, eli observed her mouth hannah was speaking in her heart. Only her lips moved and her voice was not heard. Therefore, eli took her to be a drunken woman. And when she had weaned him, she brought him up with her along with a three year old bull, an efa of flour and a skin of wine. When he was young, then they slew the bull and they brought the child to li.