For example, Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel, “went on to make a vow and say: ‘O Jehovah of armies, if . . . you will not forget your slave girl and actually give to your slave girl a male offspring, I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and no razor will come upon his head.’”
Hanna, die moeder van die profeet Samuel, het byvoorbeeld “’n gelofte gedoen en gesê: ‘O Jehovah van die leërs, as . . . u u slavin nie sal vergeet nie en aan u slavin ’n manlike nakomeling sal gee, sal ek hom aan Jehovah gee al die dae van sy lewe, en geen skeermes sal op sy kop kom nie’” (1 Samuel 1:11).jw2019 jw2019