He had two wives,(A) the first named Hannah(B) and the second Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless. This man would go up from his town every year(C) to worship and to sacrifice(D) to the Lord of Armies at Shiloh,(E) where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord’s priests.

Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he always gave portions of the meat(F) to his wife Peninnah and to each of her sons and daughters.

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