Genesis 30:1

Modern English Version

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I will die.”

Cross References

Job 5:2

For anger slays the foolish man, and jealousy kills the gullible.

Genesis 29:31

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 37:11

So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

2 Corinthians 7:10

Godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

James 4:5

Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us” ?

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still worldly. For while there is envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and behaving as mere men?

Proverbs 14:30

A sound mind is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Titus 3:3

We also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in evil and envy, filled with hatred and hating each other.

Galatians 5:21

envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I previously warned you, that those who do such things shall 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 to Galilee.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I observed that all labor and skill of work come one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Psalm 106:16

They envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy priest of the Lord.

Job 13:19

Who is he who will plead with me? For now, if I hold my tongue, I will give up my breath.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?

1 Kings 19:4

But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:29

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Oh, that all the people of the Lord were prophets, and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”

Numbers 11:15

If You do this to me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.”

Proverbs 30:16

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

1 Samuel 1:10

And she was bitter, and prayed to the Lord, and wept severely.