Genesis 30:1

World English Bible (2000)

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."

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  • Gen 29:31 : 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."
  • Num 11:29 : 29 Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!"
  • 1 Sam 1:4-8 : 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb. 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."
  • Job 3:1-3 : 1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2 Job answered: 3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
  • Job 3:11 : 11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
  • Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh's saint.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. 15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad. 16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • John 4:3 : 3 he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
  • John 4:8 : 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
  • Gen 35:16-19 : 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. 17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son." 18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin. 19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

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  • Gen 30:2-10
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    2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

    3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

    4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

    5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

    6 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.

    7 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

    8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

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

    10 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 29:31
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    31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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

    23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

    24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."

    25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

  • Gen 35:16-19
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    16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

    17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

    18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

    19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

  • Gen 30:14-15
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    14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

    15 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

  • Gen 31:14
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    14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 27:46
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    46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

    29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

  • Gen 29:16-18
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    16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

    18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

  • Gen 25:22
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    22 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

  • Gen 46:19
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    19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 31:32-34
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    32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

    33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

    34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.

  • Gen 30:17
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    17 God 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 came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."

  • Gen 29:10-12
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    10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

    11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

    12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 30:19
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    19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

  • Jer 31:15
    70%

    15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.