1Sam 1
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There was a man of Armathaim Sipha, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Helkana, a
son of Jeremeel the son of Elias the son of Thoke, in Nasib Ephraim.
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And he had two wives; the name of the one was Anna, and the name of the second Phennana.
And Phennana had children, but Anna had no child.
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And the man went up Gr. from days to days from year to year from his city, from Armathaim, to worship and sacrifice to the
Lord God of Sabaoth at Selom: and there were Heli and his two sons Ophni and Phinees,
the priests of the Lord.
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And the day came, and Helkana sacrificed, and gave portions to his wife Phennana and
her children.
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And to Anna he gave Gr. one portion a prime portion, because she had no child, only Helkana loved Anna more than the
other; but the Lord had closed her womb.
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For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency
of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her
womb so as not to give her a child.
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So she did year by year, in going up to the house of the Lord; and she was dispirited,
and wept, and did not eat.
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And Helkana her husband said to her, Anna: and she said to him, Here am I, my lord:
and he said to her, What ails you that you weep? and why do you not eat? and why does
your heart smite you? am I not better to you than ten children?
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And Anna rose up after they had eaten in Selom, and stood before the Lord: and Heli
the priest was on a seat by the Gr. lintels threshold of the temple of the Lord.
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And she was very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.
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And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, O Lord God of Sabaoth, if you welt indeed
look upon the humiliation of your handmaid, and remember me, and give to your handmaid
a Gr. seed of men man-child, then will I indeed dedicate him Gr. before to you till the day of his death; and he shall drink
no wine nor strong drink, and
no Gr. iron razor shall come upon his head.
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And it came to pass, while she was long praying before the Lord, that Heli the priest
marked her mouth.
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And she was speaking in her heart, and her lips moved, but her voice was not heard:
and Heli accounted her a drunken woman.
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And the servant of Heli said to her, How long will you be drunken? take away your
wine from you, and go out from the presence of the Lord.
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And Anna answered and said, Nay, my lord, I live Compare en sklhra huera in a hard day, and I have not drunk wine or strong
drink, and I pour out my soul
before the Lord.
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Gr. give not Count not your handmaid for a pestilent woman, for by reason of the abundance of
my importunity I have continued my prayer until now.
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And Heli answered and said to her, Go in peace: the God of Israel give you all your
petition, which you have asked of him.
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And she said, Your handmaid has found favour in your eyes: and the woman went her
way, and entered into her lodging, and ate and drank with her husband, and her countenance
was no more sad.
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And they rise early in the morning, and worship the Lord, and they go their way: and
Helkana went into his house at Armathaim, and knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered
her, and she conceived.
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And it came to pass Gr. in the season of days when the time was come, that she brought forth a son, and called his name Samuel,
and said, Because I asked him of the Lord God of Sabaoth.
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And the man Helkana and all his house went up to offer in Selom the yearly sacrifice,
and his vows, and all the tithes of his land.
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But Anna did not go up with him, for she said to her husband, I will not go up until
the child goes up, when I have weaned him, and he shall be presented before the Lord,
and he shall abide there continually.
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And Helkana her husband said to her, Do that which is good in your eyes, abide still
until you shall have weaned him; but may the Lord establish that which comes out of
your mouth: and the woman tarried, and suckled her son until she had weaned him.
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And she went up with him to Selom with a calf Or, in its third year of three years old, and loaves, and an ephah of fine flour,
and a bottle of wine:
and she entered into the house of the Lord in Selom, and the child with them.
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And they brought him before the Lord; and his father slew his offering which he offered
from year to year to the Lord; and he brought near the child, and slew the calf; and
Anna the mother of the child brought him to Heli.
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And she said, I pray you, my lord, as your soul lives, I am the woman that stood in
your presence with you while praying to the Lord.
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For this child I prayed; and the Lord has given me my request that I asked of him.
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And I lend him to the Lord all his days that he lives, a loan to the Lord: and she
said,