Genesis 29:31 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 29:31

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

KJV

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ASV

And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

WEB

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

YLT

And Jehovah seeth that Leah is the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel is barren;

DBT

And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Genesis 30:22
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis 30:1
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.
1 Samuel 2:21
And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
Psalms 127:3
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
1 Samuel 1:5
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.

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Thus it was between Elkana's two wives ( 1 Sam. i. 5 ); for the Lord is wise and righteous. When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, that is, loved less than Rachel, in which sense it is required that we hate father and mother, in comparison with Christ ( Luke xiv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The affairs of princes and mighty nations that were then in being are not recorded in the book of God, but are left to be buried in oblivion; while these small domestic concerns of holy Jacob are particularly recorded with their minute circumstances, that they may be in everlasting remembrance. For "the memory of the just is blessed." Jacob's Arrival at Padan-aram.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Leah . . . hated--that is, not loved so much as she ought to have been. Her becoming a mother ensured her rising in the estimation both of her husband and of society.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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