21 The man Elkanah and all his house ^wwent up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord ^xand dwell there forever.” 23 ^yElkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; ^zonly, may the Lord establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24 And when she had weaned him, ^ashe took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull,¹ an ephah² of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to ^bthe house of the Lord at Shiloh. And the child was young.