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Hannah’s rival provoked her bitterly, to irritate and embarrass her, because the Lord had [a]left her childless. So it happened year after year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, Peninnah provoked her; so she wept and would not eat. Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you cry and why do you not eat? Why are you so sad and discontent? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:6 Lit closed her womb.

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