OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 1:4

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When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;

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Verse 4. Sacrificed, by the hand of the priests, ( Menochius.) who had the breast and right shoulder; the rest was given back to the person who had presented the fattened victim, that he might feast with his friends. Calmet.

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