Verse 1

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

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 29:31 : 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 His brothers envied him; but his father kept this saying in mind.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • Num 11:29 : 29 Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? would that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!
  • 1 Sam 1:4-8 : 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb. 6 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
  • Job 3:1-3 : 1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2 Job answered: 3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, The night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.'
  • Job 3:11 : 11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul, 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For resentment kills the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple.
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
  • Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, And Aaron, Yahweh's saint.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 The life of the body is a heart at peace, But envy rots the bones.
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad. 16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • John 4:3 : 3 he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
  • John 4:8 : 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
  • Gen 35:16-19 : 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. 17 It happened that, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son." 18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni,{"Ben-oni" means "son of my trouble."} but his father named him Benjamin.{"Benjamin" means "son of my right hand."} 19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).