18 As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni.[a](A) But his father named him Benjamin.[b](B)

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  1. Genesis 35:18 Ben-Oni means son of my trouble.
  2. Genesis 35:18 Benjamin means son of my right hand.

59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”(A)

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46 Jesus called out with a loud voice,(A) “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”[a](B) When he had said this, he breathed his last.(C)

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  1. Luke 23:46 Psalm 31:5

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,[a] saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”

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  1. 1 Chronicles 4:9 Jabez sounds like the Hebrew for pain.

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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12 They say to their mothers,
    “Where is bread and wine?”(A)
as they faint like the wounded
    in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away(B)
    in their mothers’ arms.(C)

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17 Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,
    the son of man(A) you have raised up for yourself.

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10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,(A)
    nor will you let your faithful[a] one(B) see decay.(C)

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  1. Psalm 16:10 Or holy

20 As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.

21 She named the boy Ichabod,[a](A) saying, “The Glory(B) has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

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  1. 1 Samuel 4:21 Ichabod means no glory.

Then they are to take some of the blood(A) and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

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27 “Your servant my father(A) said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.(B) 28 One of them went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.”(C) And I have not seen him since.(D) 29 If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave(E) in misery.’(F)

30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,(G) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,(H) 31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die.(I) Your servants(J) will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave(K) in sorrow.

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14 And may God Almighty[a](A) grant you mercy(B) before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you.(C) As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”(D)

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  1. Genesis 43:14 Hebrew El-Shaddai

38 But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead(A) and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him(B) on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave(C) in sorrow.(D)

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But Jacob did not send Benjamin,(A) Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.(B)

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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!”

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