Genesis 30:1

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When Rachel saw that she was not bearing children for Jacob, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I will die!'

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  • Gen 29:31 : 31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 If this is how You are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and do not let me see my misery.
  • Num 11:29 : 29 But Moses replied, 'Are you jealous on my behalf? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit on them!'
  • 1 Sam 1:4-8 : 4 On the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb. 6 Her rival provoked her severely to irritate her because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival would provoke her, and she would weep and not eat. 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her, 'Hannah, why are you crying? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?'
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 He went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom tree, sat under it, and prayed that he might die. 'Enough, LORD,' he said. 'Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.'
  • Job 3:1-3 : 1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job answered and said: 3 Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'
  • Job 3:11 : 11 Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul? 21 To those who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures. 22 Who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For anger kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.
  • Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 And I saw that all toil and all skill in work are driven by one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' and made him very glad. 16 May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon. 17 For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant. 18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?
  • John 4:3 : 3 he left Judea and went back to Galilee.
  • John 4:8 : 8 (For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food.)
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow produces death.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit God caused to dwell in us longs jealously for us?
  • Gen 35:16-19 : 16 Then they set out from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. 17 During her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don’t be afraid, for you have another son!" 18 As her life was slipping away, because she was dying, she named him Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin. 19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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  • Gen 30:2-10
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    87%

    2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, 'Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?'

    3Then she said, 'Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me, and through her, I too can build a family.'

    4So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.

    5Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

    6Then Rachel said, 'God has judged in my favor; He has listened to my plea and given me a son.' So she named him Dan.

    7Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

    8Then Rachel said, 'I have struggled greatly with my sister and I have prevailed.' So she named him Naphtali.

    9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

    10And Leah’s maidservant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 29:31
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    31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.

  • Gen 30:22-25
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    22Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

    23She conceived and gave birth to a son and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace.'

    24She named him Joseph and said, 'May the LORD add another son to me.'

    25After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Send me on my way so I can go back to my homeland.'

  • Gen 35:16-19
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    16Then they set out from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

    17During her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don’t be afraid, for you have another son!"

    18As her life was slipping away, because she was dying, she named him Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

    19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

  • Gen 30:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14During the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, 'Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.'

    15But Leah said to her, 'Isn’t it enough that you took my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?' Rachel said, 'Very well, he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.'

  • Gen 31:14
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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 27:46
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    46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, 'I am disgusted with my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these women from the land, what good is my life to me?'

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    71%

    28Jacob did so and completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29Laban also gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

  • Gen 29:16-18
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    71%

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

    17Leah had tender eyes, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

    18Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

  • Gen 25:22
    71%

    22The children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, 'If it is like this, why is this happening to me?' So she went to inquire of the LORD.

  • Gen 46:19
    71%

    19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 31:32-34
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    32But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

    33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he left Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

    34Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and was sitting on them. Laban searched the entire tent but did not find them.

  • Gen 30:17
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    17God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

  • Gen 48:7
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    7'As for me, when I was coming from Paddan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan, along the way, still some distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.'

  • Gen 29:10-12
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    70%

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

    12Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 30:19
    70%

    19Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

  • Jer 31:15
    70%

    15This is what the LORD says: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping—Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more.