but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
Parallel translations
- KJV But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
- BSB But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
- NKJV But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the Lord had closed her womb.
- NASB but to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.
- NLT And though he loved Hannah, he would give her only one choice portion because the Lord had given her no children.
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Cross-references · 7
- Gen 30:2Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
- Gen 29:30–31He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Gen 16:1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Gen 20:18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Gen 45:22He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
- Gen 43:34He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.
- Deut 21:15If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;
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