Genesis 30:2

World English Bible (2000)

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?"

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  • Gen 16:2 : 2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
  • 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
  • 1 Sam 2:5-6 : 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes. 6 "Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
  • 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me."
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
  • Luke 1:42 : 42 She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,
  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 31:36 : 36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
  • Gen 50:19 : 19 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
  • Deut 7:13-14 : 13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 30:1
    87%

    1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."

  • Gen 30:3-10
    8 verses
    83%

    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.

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

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

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

    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.

  • Gen 29:31
    77%

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

  • Gen 30:22-25
    4 verses
    76%

    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 31:36
    76%

    36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

  • Gen 30:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    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."

  • Gen 31:14
    75%

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

  • Gen 31:32-34
    3 verses
    73%

    32Anyone 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.

    33Laban 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.

    34Now 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 25:22
    72%

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

  • Gen 30:17
    72%

    17God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

  • Gen 35:16
    72%

    16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

  • Ps 78:21
    71%

    21Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

  • Gen 29:10-12
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    71%

    10It 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.

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

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

  • Gen 29:16
    71%

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

  • Gen 29:25
    71%

    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 29:29
    71%

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

  • Gen 31:4
    70%

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

  • Gen 30:12
    70%

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

  • Gen 29:21
    70%

    21Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

  • Gen 30:19
    70%

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

  • Gen 31:42
    70%

    42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."