Genesis 29:31

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Summary

Genesis 29:31

And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Saw

Exodus 3:7

Was hated

He opened

General references

Genesis 20:17

Exodus 1:1

Deuteronomy 22:13

Bible References

Saw

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.

Was hated

Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years.

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!"

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.

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau's mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals."

"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.

"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.

"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.

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

He opened

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham's wife.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

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.

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!"

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

But he would give a double portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. Now the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord's sanctuary.

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.

General references

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt -- each man with his household entered with Jacob:

Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,