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To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children, and you shall be dependent on your husband, and he shall rule over you.

There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, for the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, and they became giants who in the olden days were mighty men of renown.

To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, even to him were children born.

And the children of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

NOW Sarai, Abrams wife, bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar.

And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children; therefore go in unto my maid; it may be that I may be consoled by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

For I know him well, and that he will command his children and his household after him, to keep the ways of the LORD, to do justice and righteousness; for the LORD shall fulfil for Abraham the thing that he has spoken concerning him.

So Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimeleck and his wife and his maidservants, and they bore children.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would give suck to children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.

And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:

And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Haphar, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Kenturah.

And the children struggled together within her womb; and she said, If it is to be like this, why do I live? So she went to enquire of the LORD.

AND when Rachel saw that she was not bearing children to Jacob, she envied her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob to wife.

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the service which I have rendered you.

For all the riches which God has selected from our father belong to us and our children; now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.

Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. and all that you see is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne?

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hands of my brother Esau; for I am afraid of him, lest he will come to smite me, and the mothers with their children.

That is why the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day; because the angel touched the hollow of Jacobs thigh on the sinew of the thigh.

AND Jacob raised his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maids.