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1 Samuel 1:2-6 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

2. And he had two wives, the name of one was Ḥannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Ḥannah had no children.

3. Now this man went up from his city year by year to worship and to slaughter to יהוה of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Ěli, Ḥophni and Pineḥas, the priests of יהוה, were there.

4. And when the day came for Elqanah to make an offering, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters,

5. but, although he loved Ḥannah, he gave only one portion to Ḥannah, because יהוה had shut up her womb.

6. Moreover, her rival also provoked her greatly, to make her irritable, because יהוה had shut up her womb.

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