2 And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, and on which you ^aput a curse, even saying it in my ears—here is the silver with me; I took it.” And his mother said, ^b“May you be blessed by the Lord, my son!”  ‡

3 So when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, “I had wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son, to ^amake a carved image and a molded image; now therefore, I will return it to you.”  ‡