Genesis 25:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² [Two] children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so [that the Lord has heard our prayer], why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

²² But the boys pushed against each other inside of her, and she said, “If this is what it’s like, why did it happen to me?” So she went to ask the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² But the little ones struggled in her womb. So she said, "If it was to be so with me, what need was there to conceive?" And she went to consult the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² But the children struggled in her womb; and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.

Genesis 25:22 Cross References

Ezekiel 20:31

and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD I will not be inquired of by you:

Ezekiel 36:37

Thus saith the Lord GOD For this moreover will I be inquired of by the house of Israel; to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

1 Samuel 10:22

Therefore they asked of the LORD further, Is there yet a man to come hither? And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.

1 Samuel 22:15

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.

1 Samuel 28:6

And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

1 Samuel 30:8

And David inquired of the LORD, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and shalt without fail recover all.

1 Samuel 9:9

(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)