God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Parallel translations
- KJV And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
- BSB Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
- NKJV Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
- NASB Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
- NLT Then God remembered Rachel’s plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children.
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- Gen 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- Ps 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
- 1 Sam 1:19–20They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
- Gen 25:21Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Gen 21:1–2Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
- Ps 127:3Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Gen 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Gen 30:2Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
- Ps 105:42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
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