Verse 31

And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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  • Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated,
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
  • Gen 30:22 : 22 God remembered Rachel, listened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD 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;
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 They had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
  • 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 had no children. 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, you are barren and have no children: but you shall conceive and bear a son.
  • 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had closed her womb.
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 So it came to pass, when the time had come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bore 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 has granted me my petition which I asked of him:
  • 1 Sam 2:21 : 21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had a maidservant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
  • Gen 20:18-21:2 : 18 For the LORD had 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 to Sarah as He had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.
  • Gen 29:30 : 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die." 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"