Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
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.
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.”
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- when Rachel
- Genesis 29:31
- Rachel envied
- Envy and jealousy are most tormenting passions to the breast which harbours them, vexatious to all around, and introductory to much impatience and ungodliness. "Who is able to stand before envy?"
- Genesis 37:11; 1 Samuel 1:4–8; Psalm 106:16; Proverbs 14:30; Ecclesiastes 4:4; 1 Corinthians 3:3; Galatians 5:21; Titus 3:3; James 3:14; James 4:5
- or else I die
- Genesis 35:16–19; Genesis 37:11; Numbers 11:15, 29; 1 Kings 19:4; Job 3:1–3, 11, 20–22; Job 5:2; Job 13:19; Jeremiah 20:14–18; John 4:3, 8; 2 Corinthians 7:10