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

² Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”^(A)

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

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

²² To each one of them he gave a set of garments, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of garments.^(A)

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

The Birth of Ishmael

16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave whose name was Hagar,^(A)

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

The Right of the Firstborn

¹⁵ “If a man has two wives, one of them loved and the other disliked, and if both the loved and the disliked have borne him sons, the firstborn being the son of the one who is disliked,