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To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain 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 came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

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

Now Sar'ai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;

and Sar'ai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sar'ai.

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 to Abraham what he has promised him."

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

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

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

The sons of Mid'ian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abi'da, and Elda'ah. All these were the children of Ketu'rah.

The children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is thus, 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 even I 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 the service which I have given you."

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

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 this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.

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

And Jacob lifted up 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.