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On[a] 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,[b] because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb. (Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:4 Literally “And it happened on”
  2. 1 Samuel 1:5 Literally “a portion of two faces”