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But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and stay there forever.”
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Verse 22. Weaned. The mother of the Machabees weaned her children when they were three years old; (2 Maccabees 7:27) which Gallien asserts as the proper time, though Avicenna fixes upon two years. See Genesis 21:8. Iremellius translates, “till the child be grown up.” But we must not allow any long term, since he was very young when he was presented to the Lord. verse 24.
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