₁₈In the meantime the boy Samuel continued to serve the LORD, wearing a sacred linen apron. ₁₉Each year his mother would make a little robe and take it to him when she accompanied her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. ₂₀Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say to Elkanah, “May the LORD give you other children by this woman to take the place of the one you dedicated to him.”

After that they would go back home.

₂₆The boy Samuel continued to grow and to gain favour both with the LORD and with people.