1 Samuel 1:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 but unto Hannah he gave a double portion: for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had given her no children. American Standard Version (1901) but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb. Common English Bible But he would give only one part of it to Hannah, though he loved her, because the LORD had kept her from conceiving. Catholic Public Domain Version But to Hannah he gave one portion with sorrow. For he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb. |
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
If a man have 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 be hers that was hated;