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Passages on this topic · 44

• Genesis 28:6

  Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,”

• Genesis 28:7

  and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

• Genesis 28:8

  Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

• Genesis 28:9

  Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

• 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.”

• Genesis 30:2

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

• Genesis 30:3

  She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

• Genesis 30:4

  She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

• Genesis 30:5

  Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.

• Genesis 30:7

  Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:8

  Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

• Genesis 30:9

  When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

• Genesis 30:10

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:11

  Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

• Genesis 30:12

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

• Genesis 30:14

  Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:15

  She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.

• Genesis 30:17

  God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

• Genesis 30:21

  Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 30:22

  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

• Genesis 30:24

  She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

• Romans 11:11

  I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

• Romans 11:14

  if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

• 2 Corinthians 8:1

  Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

• 2 Corinthians 8:2

  how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

• 2 Corinthians 8:3

  For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

• 2 Corinthians 8:4

  begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

• 2 Corinthians 8:5

  This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

• 2 Corinthians 8:6

  So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:7

  But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:8

  I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

• 2 Corinthians 9:1

  It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

• 2 Corinthians 9:2

  for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

• 2 Corinthians 9:3

  But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

• 2 Corinthians 9:4

  so that I won’t by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

• 2 Corinthians 9:5

  I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

• Hebrews 10:24

  Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,