1 Samuel 1

2 Ref and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

3 Ref This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

4 Ref When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

5 Ref but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

6 Ref Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

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