Compare the account at 1 Samuel 1: 3, 7. There, “as often as ” (in the modern translation of the Hebrew) refers to events that happened“ from year to year, ” or once a year, when Elkanah and his two wives went to the tabernacle at Shiloh.
પરંતુ, વર્ષો પછી ચર્ચના ખ્રિસ્તીઓ વર્ષમાં અનેક વાર એ દિવસ ઉજવવા લાગ્યા.