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The Family of Elkanah

There was a certain man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.[a] He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah, and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man used to go up from his town year by year[b] to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh, where[c] the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:1 Or “Ephrathite”
  2. 1 Samuel 1:3 Literally “from days to days”
  3. 1 Samuel 1:3 Literally “and there”