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1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

2 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. PeninNAM had children, but HanNAM had no children.

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

4 When the day came that ElkaNAM sacrificed, he gave portions to PeninNAM his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;

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

6 Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

7 So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

8 ElkaNAM her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

9 So HanNAM rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.