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6 Her adversary also afflicted her, and vexed her sore, in so much that she upbraided her, that our Lord had shut her matrice:
7 and so did she every year, when the time returned, that they went up to the temple of our Lord: and so she provoked her: moreover she wept, and took not meat.
8 Elcana therefore her husband said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? And why dost thou not eat? And wherefore dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee, than ten children?
Hannah Prays for a Son
9 And Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo. And Heli the Priest sitting upon a Stool before the posts of the house of our Lord,
10 whereas Anna had a heavy heart, she prayed to our Lord, weeping aboundantly,
11 and she vowed a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if regarding thou wilt behold the affliction of thy servant, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give unto thy servant a man child: I will give him to our Lord all the days of his life, & the razor shall not come upon his head.
12 And it came to pass, when she multiplied prayers before our Lord, that Heli observed her mouth.
13 Moreover Anna spake in her heart, and only her lips moved, and voice there was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be drunk,
14 and said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? Digest a little the wine, wherewith thou art wet.
15 Anna answering, Not so, quoth she, my Lord: for I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and wine and whatsoever may inebriate, I have not drunk, but I have poured out my soul in the sight of our Lord.
16 Account not thy handmaid as one of the daughters of Belial: for of the multitude of my sorrow and heaviness have I spoken until this present.
17 Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel give thee thy petition, which thou hast asked him.
18 But she said: Would God thy handmaid may find grace in thine eyes. And the woman went on her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more changed otherwise.
Birth of Samuel
19 And they rose in the morning, and adored before our Lord: and they returned, & came into their house to Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: and our Lord remembered her.
20 And it came to pass after a certain compass of days, Anna conceived & bare a son, and called his name Samuel: because she asked him of our Lord.
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