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Now this man used to go up from his town year by year[a] to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh, where[b] the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to Yahweh. On[c] the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he would give a double portion,[d] because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:3 Literally “from days to days”
  2. 1 Samuel 1:3 Literally “and there”
  3. 1 Samuel 1:4 Literally “And it happened on”
  4. 1 Samuel 1:5 Literally “a portion of two faces”