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 Jehovah 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

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

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had 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, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him sons, the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son was of her that was hated,

and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness.

No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

He opened

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear. And she had a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.

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

And Jehovah visited Sarah as He had said. And Jehovah did to Sarah as He had spoken.

And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren. And Jehovah heard him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I will 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 one double portion, for he loved Hannah. But Jehovah had shut up her womb.

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

Lo, children are the inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren. And both were advanced in their days.

General references

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave women, and they gave birth.

And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt. Every man and his household came with Jacob:

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