Genesis 30:23
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Genesis 30:23
- "Be fruitful and multiply," was the blessing of God: barrenness therefore was reckoned a reproach. The intense desire of having children, observable among the Jewish women, arose not only from this reproach of barrenness, but from the hope of being the mother of the promised seed, and Him in whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed.
- Genesis 29:31; 1 Samuel 1:5, 6; Isaiah 4:1; Luke 1:21, 25, 27