1 Samuel 1:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he gave some of the meat^[a] to Peninnah and some to each of her sons and daughters. ⁵But he gave Hannah even more, because^[b] he loved Hannah very much, even though the Lord had kept her from having children of her own.

⁶Peninnah liked to make Hannah feel miserable about not having any children,

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Footnotes

1.4 meat: For some sacrifices, like this one, only part of the meat was burned. Some was given to the priest, and the rest was eaten by the family and guests of the worshiper (see Leviticus 3.1-17; 7.11-18).
1.5 even more, because: One ancient translation; Hebrew “only one; he.”