Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Childlessness » A reproach
Leah said: I am happy, for women will call me blessed. So she named him Asher.
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Seven women will grab one man and say: We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes. Just let us marry you and be called by your name. Take away our disgrace.
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She said: This is the way God has dealt with me by taking away my reproach among men. (1 Samuel 1:11)
She said to Abram: Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, because she said: Certainly, Jehovah has seen my misery. Now my husband will love me!
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Rachel had not borne Jacob any children. As a result, she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob: Give me children, or I will die. Jacob became angry with Rachel. He said: I cannot take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children. She said: Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her.
The other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy. This is because Jehovah had not given her children.
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Ishmael » The outcast, life summarized » Born of a bigamous marriage, with a foreigner
Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
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She said to Abram: Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said. After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife. Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » Sarah
She said to Abram: Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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Then Sarai said to Abram: You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May Jehovah judge between you and me.
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Sarah » Also called sarai » Is sterile; gives her handmaiden, hagar, to abraham as a concubine
Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. She said to Abram: Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said. After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife.
Servant » Bond » Taken in concubinage
Your servant is in your hands, Abram said. Do with her whatever you think best. Then Sarai mistreated Hagar. So she ran away from her.
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Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. She said to Abram: Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
She said: Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her.
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When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah.
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