4. On the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.
5. But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb.
6. (Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)
7. And so he used to do year after year; whenever she went up to the house of Yahweh, she would provoke her so that she would weep and would not eat.
8. So Elkanah her husband would say to her: “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And why are you heartsick? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”