Rachel saw that she was not giving Jacob any children. Rachel became jealous of her sister Leah. So Rachel said to Jacob, “Give me children or I will die!”
“A person’s friends should be kind\par to him if he has troubles.\par A person should be loyal to his friend,\par even if that friend turned away from \{God\} All-Powerful.\par
“While your wife is still living, you must not take her sister as {another} wife. This will make the sisters become enemies. You must not have sexual relations with [325] your wife’s sister.
Then Jephthah’s daughter said to her father, “But do this one thing for me first. Let me be alone for two months. Let me go to the mountains. I will not marry and have children, so let me and my friends go and cry together.”
The same thing happened every year. Every time their family went to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, Peninnah made Hannah upset. One day Elkanah was giving sacrifices. [7] Hannah became upset and began to cry. Hannah would not eat anything.