Verse 1

And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren;
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
  • Num 11:29 : 29 And Moses saith to him, `Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah's people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!'
  • 1 Sam 1:4-8 : 4 And the day cometh, and Elkanah sacrificeth, and he hath given to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions, 5 and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion -- double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb; 6 and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb. 7 And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat. 8 And Elkanah her husband saith to her, `Hannah, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why is thy heart afflicted? am I not better to thee than ten sons?'
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'
  • Job 3:1-3 : 1 After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day. 2 And Job answereth and saith: -- 3 Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'
  • Job 3:11 : 11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? 21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. 22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
  • Ps 106:16 : 16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A healed heart `is' life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones `is' envy.
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed! 15 Cursed `is' the man who bore tidings `to' my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child -- a male,' Making him very glad! 16 Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon. 17 Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during. 18 Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
  • John 4:3 : 3 he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,
  • John 4:8 : 8 for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
  • Gen 35:16-19 : 16 And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing; 17 and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also `is' a son for thee.' 18 And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin; 19 and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which `is' Bethlehem,