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17 Eli responded, ‘Go in peace,(A) and may the God of Israel grant the request you’ve made of him.’(B)

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20 After some time,[a] Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[b] because she said, ‘I requested him from the Lord.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1:20 Lit In the turning of the days
  2. 1:20 In Hb, the name Samuel sounds like the phrase ‘requested from God’.