Genesis 16:2
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2 (A)So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord (B)has restrained me from bearing children. Please, (C)go in to my maid; perhaps I shall [a]obtain children by her.” And Abram (D)heeded the voice of Sarai.
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- Genesis 16:2 Lit. be built up from
Exodus 21:4
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4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
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Genesis 18:10
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10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you (A)according to the time of life, and behold, (B)Sarah your wife shall have a son.”
(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)
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Genesis 3:17
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17 Then to Adam He said, (A)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree (B)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
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Psalm 127:3
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Ruth 4:11
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11 And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. (A)The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who (B)built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in (C)Ephrathah and be famous in (D)Bethlehem.
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Genesis 30:22
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22 Then God (A)remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and (B)opened her womb.
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Genesis 30:9-10
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9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and (A)gave her to Jacob as wife. 10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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Genesis 30:2-4
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2 And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, (A)“Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
3 So she said, “Here is (B)my maid Bilhah; go in to her, (C)and she will bear a child on my knees, (D)that I also may [a]have children by her.” 4 Then she gave him Bilhah her maid (E)as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
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- Genesis 30:3 Lit. be built up by her
Genesis 25:21
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21 Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; (A)and the Lord granted his plea, (B)and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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Genesis 20:18
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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.
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Genesis 17:16
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16 And I will bless her (A)and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother (B)of nations; (C)kings of peoples shall be from her.”
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Genesis 3:12
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12 Then the man said, (A)“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
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Genesis 3:1-6
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The Temptation and Fall of Man(A)
3 Now (B)the serpent was (C)more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the (D)fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you (E)touch it, lest you die.’ ”
4 (F)Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 So when the woman (G)saw that the tree was good for food, that it was [a]pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit (H)and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
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- Genesis 3:6 Lit. a desirable thing
Genesis 30:6
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6 Then Rachel said, “God has (A)judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name [a]Dan.
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- Genesis 30:6 Lit. Judge
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