Genesis 30:1

When Rachel [Ewe sheep] saw that she bore Jacob [Supplanter] no children, Rachel [Ewe sheep] envied her sister. She said to Jacob [Supplanter], “Give me children, or else I will die.”

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In The King James Version

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

In Context

2Jacob [Supplanter]’s anger burned against Rachel [Ewe sheep], and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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Cross References

Genesis 35:16They traveled from Beth-el [House of God]. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel [Ewe sheep] travailed. She had hard labor.

Numbers 11:15If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found chen ·grace· in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:1

In this chapter we have an account of the increase, I. Of Jacob's family. Eight children more we find registered in this chapter; Dan and Naphtali by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, ver. 1-8 . Gad and Asher by Zilpah, Leah's maid, ver. 9-13 . Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah, by Leah, ver. 14-21 . And, last of all, Joseph, by Rachel, ver. 22-24 . II. Of Jacob's estate. He makes a new bargain with Laban, ver. 25-34 . And in the six years' further service he did to Laban God wonderfully blessed him, so that his stock of cattle… Read the whole commentary →

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