The Children of Jacob

31 When the Lord (A)saw that Leah was [a]unloved, He (B)opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 29:31 Lit. hated

Jacob’s Children

31 When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved,(A) he enabled her to conceive,(B) but Rachel remained childless.

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37 (A)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.

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37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.(A)

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21 And the Lord (A)visited[a] Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile the child Samuel (B)grew before the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:21 attended to

21 And the Lord was gracious to Hannah;(A) she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew(B) up in the presence of the Lord.

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Behold, (A)children are a heritage from the Lord,
(B)The fruit of the womb is a (C)reward.

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Children are a heritage from the Lord,
    offspring a reward(A) from him.

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But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, (A)although the Lord had closed her womb.

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But to Hannah he gave a double portion(A) because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb.(B)

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Now there was a certain man from (A)Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. And the (B)Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

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A certain man of Zorah,(A) named Manoah,(B) from the clan of the Danites,(C) had a wife who was childless,(D) unable to give birth. The angel of the Lord(E) appeared to her(F) and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.(G)

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Firstborn Inheritance Rights

15 “If a man has two wives, one loved (A)and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,

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The Right of the Firstborn

15 If a man has two wives,(A) and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,(B)

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And the Lord said: (A)“I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry (B)because of their taskmasters, (C)for I know their [a]sorrows.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 3:7 pain

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen(A) the misery(B) of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned(C) about their suffering.(D)

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Jacob’s Children

30 Now when Rachel saw that (A)she bore Jacob no children, Rachel (B)envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, (C)or else I die!”

And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, (D)Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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30 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children,(A) she became jealous of her sister.(B) So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”

Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God,(C) who has kept you from having children?”(D)

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30 Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also (A)loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban (B)still another seven years.

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30 Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah.(A) And he worked for Laban another seven years.(B)

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

Isaac Is Born(B)

21 And the Lord (C)visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah (D)as He had spoken. For Sarah (E)conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, (F)at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

18 for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.(A)

The Birth of Isaac

21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah(B) as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.(C) Sarah became pregnant and bore a son(D) to Abraham in his old age,(E) at the very time God had promised him.(F)

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

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25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it(A) for eternal life.(B)

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26 (A)“If anyone comes to Me (B)and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, (C)yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

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26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.(A)

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