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

So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; 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."

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, so that they gave birth to children.

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

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

Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children; and the LORD answered him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

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

Now the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was unable to have children.

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

Now when Rachel saw that she had not borne Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am going to die."

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

"Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; 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 told you."

Then Jacob stood up and put his children and his wives on camels;

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

"Save me, please, 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 got up that same night and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven children, and crossed the shallow place of the Jabbok.