² A certain man of Zorah,^(A) named Manoah,^(B) from the clan of the Danites,^(C) had a wife who was childless,^(D) unable to give birth.

⁴¹ The territory of their inheritance included:

⁷ But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.

³³ In the western foothills:

²¹ Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless.^(A) The Lord answered his prayer,^(B) and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

² He had two wives;^(A) one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

³ Year after year^(B) this man went up from his town to worship^(C) and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh,^(D) where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli,^(E) were priests of the Lord. ⁴ Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice,^(F) he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.^{(G) 5} But to Hannah he gave a double portion^(H) because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb.^{(I) 6} Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.^(J)

Hagar and Ishmael

16 Now Sarai,^(A) Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.^(B) But she had an Egyptian slave^(C) named Hagar;^(D)