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There was a man from Ramathaim-zophim in[fn] the hill country of Ephraim. His name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
He had two wives, the first named Hannah and the second Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies at Shiloh, 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 to his wife Peninnah and to each of her sons and daughters.
But he gave a double[fn] portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the LORD had kept her from conceiving.
Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the LORD had kept Hannah from conceiving.
Year after year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival taunted her in this way. Hannah would weep and would not eat.
“Hannah, why are you crying? ” her husband Elkanah would ask. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than ten sons? ”
On one occasion, Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh.[fn] The priest Eli was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.
Hannah was praying silently,[fn] and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. Eli thought she was drunk
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman with a broken heart. I haven’t had any wine or beer; I’ve been pouring out my heart before the LORD.
“Don’t think of me as a wicked woman; I’ve been praying from the depth of my anguish and resentment.”
Eli responded, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request you’ve made of him.”
“May your servant find favor with you,” she replied. Then Hannah went on her way; she ate and no longer looked despondent.[fn]
The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to worship before the LORD. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
When Elkanah and all his household went up to make the annual sacrifice and his vow offering to the LORD,
Hannah did not go and explained to her husband, “After the child is weaned, I’ll take him to appear in the LORD’s presence and to stay there permanently.”
“Please, my lord,” she said, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
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