Psalm 127:3
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Psalm 128:3-4
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3 Your wife will be like (A)a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like (B)olive shoots
around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.
Deuteronomy 28:4
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4 Blessed shall be (A)the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
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1 Samuel 1:27
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27 For this child I prayed, (A)and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.
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Genesis 33:5
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5 And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, (A)“The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
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Isaiah 8:18
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18 (A)Behold, I and (B)the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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Genesis 48:4
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4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you (A)for an everlasting possession.’
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Genesis 1:28
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28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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Joshua 24:3-4
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3 (A)Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River[a] and (B)led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. (C)I gave him Isaac. 4 And to Isaac I gave (D)Jacob and Esau. (E)And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, (F)but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
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- Joshua 24:3 That is, the Euphrates; also verses 14, 15
1 Samuel 1:19-20
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19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at (A)Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord (B)remembered her. 20 And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”[a]
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- 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard of God
Genesis 30:1-2
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30 When Rachel saw that (A)she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, (B)who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
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Genesis 41:51-52
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51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.”[a] 52 The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has (A)made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”[b]
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- Genesis 41:51 Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for making to forget
- Genesis 41:52 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful
Genesis 24:60
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60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“Our sister, may you (A)become
thousands of ten thousands,
and (B)may your offspring possess
the gate of those who hate him!”[a]
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- Genesis 24:60 Or hate them
Genesis 15:4-5
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4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; (A)your very own son[a] shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and (B)number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, (C)“So shall your offspring be.”
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- Genesis 15:4 Hebrew what will come out of your own loins
1 Chronicles 28:5
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5 And of (A)all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he (B)has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
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1 Samuel 2:20-21
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20 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children by this woman (A)for the petition she asked of the Lord.” So then they would return to their home.
21 (B)Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. (C)And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.
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Isaiah 13:18
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18 (A)Their bows will slaughter[a] the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
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- Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces
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