³¹ When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.^(A)

¹⁹ They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. Elkanah knew his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.^(A)

²⁰ In due time Hannah conceived and bore a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, “I have asked him of the Lord.”^(A)