Verse 31

The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 21:15 : 15 Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
  • Gen 30:22 : 22 Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.
  • Judg 13:2-3 : 2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. 3 The LORD’s angel appeared to the woman and said to her,“You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.
  • 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, although the LORD had not enabled her to have children.
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 Then Hannah became pregnant. Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the LordIn the course of time she gave birth to a son. And she named him Samuel, thinking,“I asked the LORD for him.”
  • 1 Sam 1:27 : 27 For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me the request that I asked of him.
  • 1 Sam 2:21 : 21 And indeed the LORD attended to Hannah. She got pregnant and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew up before the LORD.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 The Birth of Ishmael Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
  • Gen 20:18-21:2 : 18 For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife. 1 The Birth of Isaac The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
  • Gen 29:30 : 30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well. He also loved Rachel more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban for seven more years.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob,“Give me children or I’ll die!” 2 Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”