1 Samuel 1
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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Samuel 1:1-4

1Now there was a certain man from 1Ramathaim-zophim from the 2hill country of Ephraim, and his name was 3Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2He had 4two wives: the name of one was 5Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

3Now this man would go up from his city 6yearly 7to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in 8Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the Lord there. 4When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he 9would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Samuel 1:1 1 Sam 1:19 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Samuel 1:1 Josh 17:17, 18; 24:33 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Samuel 1:1 1 Chr 6:22-28, 33-38 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Samuel 1:2 Deut 21:15-17 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Samuel 1:2 Luke 2:36 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Samuel 1:3 Ex 34:23; 1 Sam 1:21; Luke 2:41 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Samuel 1:3 Ex 23:14; Deut 12:5-7; 16:16 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Samuel 1:3 Josh 18:1 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Samuel 1:4 Deut 12:17, 18 ↩

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