Genesis 35:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 30:24 : 24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."
  • 1 Sam 4:19-21 : 19 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her. 20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son." But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it. 21 She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel;" because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

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

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

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    27It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

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  • Gen 30:21-25
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    21Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

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

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    24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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

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

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    21A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.