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He had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.

Now this man used to go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to Adonai-Tzva’ot in Shiloh.[a] (The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were kohanim of Adonai there.) Then on the designated day Elkanah would sacrifice and give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters,

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:3 cf. Luke 2:41.