Genesis 30:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.

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  • Num 16:13 : 13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?
  • Ezek 16:47 : 47 Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.
  • 1 Cor 4:3 : 3 But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.
  • Num 16:9-9 : 9 Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them; 10 Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

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  • Gen 30:16-17
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    16In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night.

    17And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son.

  • Gen 30:14
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    14Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits.

  • Gen 30:1-7
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    1Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

    2But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

    3Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

    4So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

    5And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.

    6Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

    7And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son.

  • Gen 31:32-35
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    32As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

    33So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

    34Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

    35And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry because I do not get up before you, for I am in the common condition of women. And with all his searching, he did not come across the images.

  • Gen 29:21-25
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    21Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

    22And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.

    23And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.

    24And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.

    25And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?

  • Gen 31:14
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    14Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 29:27-29
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    27Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

    28And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.

    29And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.

  • Gen 38:18
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    18And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

  • Gen 31:19
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    19Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

  • Gen 29:19
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    19And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

  • Gen 30:9-10
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    9When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

    10And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son.

  • Gen 30:22-23
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    22Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.

    23And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.

  • Gen 38:16
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    16And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

  • Gen 29:31
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    31Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

  • Gen 29:16
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    16Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 31:4
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    4And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    69%

    9While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

    10Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

  • Gen 29:12
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    12And Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's relation and that he was the son of Rebekah, went running to give her father news of it.