Genesis 29:31
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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Genesis 29:31
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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Genesis 29:32
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
Genesis 29:33
She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.
Genesis 29:34
She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.
Genesis 29:35
She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Genesis 29:23
In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.
Genesis 30:17
God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,
Deuteronomy 21:16
then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;
Deuteronomy 21:17
but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
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Genesis 29:30
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
Romans 9:13
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Proverbs 13:24
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Genesis 30:1
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.”
Genesis 30:2
Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Genesis 30:22
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis 21:1
Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 21:2
Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
1 Samuel 1:5
but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 20:18
For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Judges 13:2
There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
1 Samuel 1:20
When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”
1 Samuel 1:27
I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.
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Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Genesis 30:23
She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
Genesis 30:24
She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
Luke 1:7
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
Genesis 20:17
Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
Ruth 4:13
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.
Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
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