Genesis 30:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

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.

1 Kings 19:4

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

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 forth from the womb and expire?

Job 5:2

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

Psalm 106:16

They were jealous of Moses in the camp and of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but jealousy makes the bones rot.

Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever-thirsty for water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

Ecclesiastes 4:4

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

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”

Numbers 11:29

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

John 4:3

he left Judea and started back to Galilee.

John 4:8

(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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, despicable, hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell in us desire envy?

1 Samuel 1:10

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