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To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.

And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife and his handmaids, and they bore [children].

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will suckle children? For I have borne [him] a son in his old age.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

And Jacob continued his journey, and went into the land of the children of the east.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Give [me] my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee.

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children.

Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew that is over the joint of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the joint of Jacob's thigh—the sinew.

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:

and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children that God has graciously given thy servant.

And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.

And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed.

And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die.