Genesis 30:1

English Standard Version 2016

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

Cross References

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Genesis 29:31

When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 37:11

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

John 4:8

(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

John 4:3

he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Psalm 106:16

When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

Job 13:19

Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:29

But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”

Numbers 11:15

If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

1 Samuel 1:10

She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.