Genesis 30:23
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
BSB
ASV
And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
KJV
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
And she conceived and bare a son,.... Through the goodness of God unto her, and for which she was greatly thankful: and said, God hath taken away my reproach; the reproach of barrenness with which she was reproached among her neighbours; and perhaps by her sister Leah, and indeed it was a general reproach in those times; and especially, it was the more grievous to good women in the family of Abraham, because they were not the means of multiplying his seed according to the promise, and could have no hope of the Messiah springing from them.
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Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
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Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away…
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her…
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
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Isaiah 4:1In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away…
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So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
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Luke 1:27to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
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This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy…
