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To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall 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 went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.

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

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar,

and Sarai said to Abram, "You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave-girl; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge 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 about for Abraham what he has promised him."

Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

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

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

The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

The children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is to be this way, why do I live?" So she went to inquire of the Lord .

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"

Then she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her."

When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid 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 know very well the service I have given you."

All the property that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you."

So Jacob arose, and set his children and his wives on camels;

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

Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children.