Genesis 30:17

World English Bible (2000)

God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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  • Gen 30:6 : 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.
  • Gen 30:22 : 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh."
  • 1 Sam 1:26-27 : 26 She said, "Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh. 27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

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  • Gen 30:18-25
    8 verses
    88%

    18Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

    19Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

    20Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.

    21Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

    22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

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

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

    25It 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 30:2-5
    4 verses
    81%

    2Jacob'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?"

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

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

    5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 30:9-16
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    81%

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

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

    11Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.

    12Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.

    13Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.

    14Reuben 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."

    15She 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."

    16Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.

  • Gen 29:31-35
    5 verses
    78%

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

    32Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

    33She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

    34She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

    35She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

  • Gen 30:7
    77%

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

  • Gen 29:23-25
    3 verses
    74%

    23It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

    24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

    25It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

  • Gen 35:23
    74%

    23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

  • Gen 46:18
    73%

    18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

  • Gen 29:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Gen 31:4
    72%

    4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,