4 Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he always gave portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to each of her sons and daughters.
5 But he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the Lord had kept her from conceiving.
6 Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.
7 Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat.
8 “Hannah, why are you crying? ” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than 10 sons? ”
9 Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh. Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s tabernacle.
10 Deeply hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears.