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To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you."

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

"For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him."

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, so that they bore children.

And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

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

But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is so, why then am I this way?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die."

She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too may have children."

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

"Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you."

Then Jacob arose and put his children and his wives upon camels;

Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

"Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

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

He put the maids and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.