Genesis 30:1

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

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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’s anger burnt against Rachel, 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 travelled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labour.

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

1 Samuel 1:4When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;

1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Job 3:11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

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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