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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Your wife shall be (A)like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of your house,
Your (B)children (C)like olive plants
All around your table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the Lord.

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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine(A)
    within your house;
your children(B) will be like olive shoots(C)
    around your table.
Yes, this will be the blessing(D)
    for the man who fears the Lord.(E)

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“Blessed shall be (A)the [a]fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:4 offspring

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.(A)

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27 (A)For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.

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27 I prayed(A) for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.

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And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?”

So he said, “The children (A)whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.

Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.(A)

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18 (A)Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me!
We (B)are for signs and wonders in Israel
From the Lord of hosts,
Who dwells in Mount Zion.

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18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.(A) We are signs(B) and symbols(C) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.(D)

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and said to me, ‘Behold, I will (A)make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and (B)give this land to your descendants after you (C)as an everlasting possession.’

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and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers.(A) I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land(B) as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’(C)

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28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and (B)subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that [a]moves on the earth.”

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  1. Genesis 1:28 moves about on

28 God blessed them and said to them,(A) “Be fruitful and increase in number;(B) fill the earth(C) and subdue it. Rule over(D) the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.(E)

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(A)Then I took your father Abraham from the other side of [a]the River, led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his [b]descendants and (B)gave him Isaac. To Isaac I gave (C)Jacob and Esau. To (D)Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, (E)but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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  1. Joshua 24:3 The Euphrates
  2. Joshua 24:3 Lit. seed

But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan(A) and gave him many descendants.(B) I gave him Isaac,(C) and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.(D) I assigned the hill country of Seir(E) to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.(F)

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Samuel Is Born and Dedicated

19 Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah (A)knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord (B)remembered her. 20 So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name [a]Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Lit. Heard by God

19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah.(A) Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered(B) her. 20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.(C) She named(D) him Samuel,[a](E) saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard by God.

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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51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn [a]Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my (A)father’s house.” 52 And the name of the second he called [b]Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be (B)fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

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  1. Genesis 41:51 Lit. Making Forgetful
  2. Genesis 41:52 Lit. Fruitfulness

51 Joseph named his firstborn(A) Manasseh[a](B) and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.” 52 The second son he named Ephraim[b](C) and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful(D) in the land of my suffering.”

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  1. Genesis 41:51 Manasseh sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for forget.
  2. Genesis 41:52 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for twice fruitful.

60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her:

“Our sister, may you become
(A)The mother of thousands of ten thousands;
(B)And may your descendants possess
The gates of those who hate them.”

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60 And they blessed(A) Rebekah and said to her,

“Our sister, may you increase
    to thousands upon thousands;(B)
may your offspring possess
    the cities of their enemies.”(C)

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