1 Samuel 1:5–11

⁵But to Hannah he would give a double portion,^e 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.) ⁷And so he used to do^f year after year; whenever^g she went up to the house of Yahweh, she^h would provoke her so that sheⁱ would weep and would not eat. ⁸So Elkanah her husband would say to her: “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And why are you heartsick?^j Am I not better to you than ten sons?” ⁹Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking at Shiloh. (Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the temple^k of Yahweh.) ¹⁰She was deeply troubled,^l so she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly. ¹¹She made a vow^m and said: “O Yahweh of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the misery of your female servant, and will remember me, and not forget your female servant, and will give to your female servant a male childⁿ then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor will never pass over his head.”^o