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.
इसे साल में एक से ज़्यादा बार मनाने की परंपरा, दरअसल इसाईजगत के धर्मों में कई साल बाद शुरू हुई थी ।