10 So he continued: “I am surely going to return to you next year at this time,* and, look! Sarah your wife will have a son.”+ Now Sarah was listening at the tent entrance, and it was behind the man.

20 So it came about at the rolling around of a year* that Hanʹnah became pregnant and brought a son to birth and proceeded to call his name+ Samuel,* because, said she, “it is from Jehovah that I have asked+ him.”

16 Then he said: “At this appointed time next year* you will be embracing a son.”+ But she said: “No, my master, O man of the [true] God! Do not tell lies in connection with your maidservant.”

13 However, the angel said to him: “Have no fear, Zech·a·riʹah, because your supplication has been favorably heard,+ and your wife Elizabeth will become mother to a son to you, and you are to call his name John.*+