Genesis 30:1 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹ And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ WHEN RACHEL saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I will die!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Common English Bible

¹ When Rachel realized that she could bear Jacob no children, Rachel became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, “Give me children! If you don’t, I may as well be dead.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, "Give me children, otherwise I will die."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

Genesis 30:1 Cross References

Genesis 29:31

And when the Lord saw that Le´ah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 37:11

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Job 13:19

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Job 3:11

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Job 5:2

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Psalm 106:16

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 30:16

the grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Numbers 11:15

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

Numbers 11:29

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them.

John 4:3

he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

John 4:8

(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

1 Corinthians 3:3

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Galatians 5:21

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

James 4:5

Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

1 Samuel 1:10

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.