¹⁸ She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.^(A)” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.^(B)

¹⁹ Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah.^(C) Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered^(D) her. ²⁰ So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.^(E) She named^(F) him Samuel,^[a](G) saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”