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And so he used to do[a] year after year; whenever[b] she went up to the house of Yahweh, she[c] would provoke her so that she[d] would weep and would not eat. So Elkanah her husband would say to her: “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And why are you heartsick?[e] Am I not better to you than ten sons?” Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking at Shiloh. (Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the temple[f] of Yahweh.)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:7 So Hebrew; because of the abrupt change of subject some revocalize the verb to read “it used to be”
  2. 1 Samuel 1:7 Or “as often as”; literally “from enough”
  3. 1 Samuel 1:7 That is, Penninah
  4. 1 Samuel 1:7 That is, Hannah
  5. 1 Samuel 1:8 Literally “why is your heart evil”
  6. 1 Samuel 1:9 This is not the temple of Solomon (ca. 966 bc), but rather the tabernacle that first resided at Shiloh after the conquest of Joshua.