Genesis 30:1

Rachel, envious of Leah's children, desperately demands that Jacob give her children or she will die.

Cross-references · 24

• Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
• Gen 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
• Gen 37:11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
• Prov 14:30The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• 2 Cor 7:10For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
• Jas 4:5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
• Jas 3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• Job 3:11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
• 1 Kgs 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
• Num 11:29Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
• Job 3:1–3After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
• John 4:3he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• John 4:8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
• Num 11:15If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
• Jer 20:14–18Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
• 1 Sam 1:4–8When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;
• Job 13:19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
• Ps 106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
• Job 3:20–22“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
• Eccl 4:4Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Gal 5:21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
• Gen 35:16–19They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

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