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To the woman He said,"I will greatly multiplyYour pain and conception,In pain you will bear children;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 servant-woman whose name was Hagar.

So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, 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 happened after these things, that it was told to 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 Yahweh.

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

And she said, "Here is my maidservant Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too may obtain children."

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 riches which God has delivered over to us from our father belong 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 answered and said 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 daughters of mine 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, lest he come and strike me down with the mothers and the children.

And he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two servant-women and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Then Jacob lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two servant-women.

And he put the servant-women and their children first, and Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph after them.