⁵ But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.^[a]

² Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, ^(A)who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

³⁰ So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban ^(A)for another seven years.

Jacob's Children

³¹ When the Lord saw that Leah was ^(B)hated, ^(C)he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

²² To each and all of them he gave ^(A)a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels^[a] of silver and ^(B)five changes of clothes.

¹⁸ For the Lord ^(A)had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Sarai and Hagar

16 ^(A)Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was ^(B)Hagar.

^34 (A)Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was ^(B)five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry^[a] with him.

Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn

¹⁵ “If a man has two wives, ^(A)the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,^[a]