19. Early the next morning they worshiped before the Lord, and then returned to their home in Ramah. When they returned Elkanah had intercourse with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.
20. She conceived and, at the end of her pregnancy, bore a son whom she named Samuel. “Because I asked the Lord for him.”
21. The next time her husband Elkanah was going up with the rest of his household to offer the customary sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vows,