Genesis 45:22
22To each and all of them he gave aa change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver and cfive changes of clothes. 1 Samuel 1:5
5But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. ▼▼Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Septuagint And, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb
1 Samuel 9:22-24
22Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons. 23And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside.’” 24So the cook took up ethe leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, “See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests.” ▼▼Hebrew appointed, saying, ‘I have invited the people’
So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
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