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

And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Was hated

And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other regarded inferior, and they have borne him sons, both the beloved and the one regarded inferior, and if the first-born son be hers who was regarded inferior,

but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

He opened

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

And Isaac entreated LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and did not bear.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but LORD had shut up her womb.

And LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before LORD.

Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, [and] the fruit of the womb is [a] reward.

And there was no child to them because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in their days.

General references

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt (every man and his household who came with Jacob):

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and dislikes her,