Verse 31

¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 21:15 : 15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.
  • Gen 30:22 : 22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 ¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 ‹No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.›
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 ‹He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.›
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were [now] well stricken in years.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 ‹If any› [man] ‹come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.›
  • John 12:25 : 25 ‹He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.›
  • Judg 13:2-3 : 2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] barren, and bare not. 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou [art] barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
  • 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 1:27 : 27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
  • 1 Sam 2:21 : 21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 ¶ Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.
  • Gen 20:18-21:2 : 18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife. 1 ¶ And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 ¶ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
  • Gen 29:30 : 30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 ¶ And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?