15 Hannah answered, 'No, my lord. I am a woman deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.'
16 Do not consider your servant a worthless woman. It is out of my great sorrow and distress that I have been speaking until now.'
17 Then Eli answered, 'Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of Him.'
18 She said, 'May your servant find favor in your eyes.' Then she went her way, and she ate, and her face was no longer downcast.
19 Early in the morning, they arose and worshiped before the LORD, and then they returned to their home in Ramah. Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
20 In the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, 'Because I asked the LORD for him.'
21 When Elkanah and all his household went up to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
22 Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, 'After the boy is weaned, I will take him to appear before the LORD, and he will remain there permanently.'
23 Elkanah her husband said to her, 'Do what seems best to you. Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD establish His word.' So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she weaned him.
24 After she had weaned him, she took him along with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. The boy was young.
25 They slaughtered the bull and brought the boy to Eli.
26 She said, 'Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
27 I prayed for this boy, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him.
28 Now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD.' And they worshiped the LORD there.