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Gen 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

when Rachel		Gen 29:31
Rachel envied		"Envy and jealousy are most tormenting passions to the breast which harbours them, vexatious to all around, and introductory to much impatience and ungodliness. ""Who is able to stand before envy?"" Gen 37:11; 1Sa 1:4-8; Psa 106:16; Pro 14:30; Ecc 4:4; 1Cr 3:3; Gal 5:21; Tts 3:3; Jam 3:14; Jam 4:5"
or else I die		Gen 35:16-19; Gen 37:11; Num 11:15,29; 1Ki 19:4; Job 3:1-3,11,20-22; Job 5:2; Job 13:19; Jer 20:14-18; Jhn 4:3,8; 2Cr 7:10

Correlating Passages

when Rachel

Gen 29:31

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

Rachel envied

	Gen 37:11	And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
	1Sa 1:4	And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
	1Sa 1:5	But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
	1Sa 1:6	And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
	1Sa 1:7	And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
	1Sa 1:8	Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better to thee than ten sons?
	Psa 106:16	They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD.
	Pro 14:30	A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
	Ecc 4:4	Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
	1Cr 3:3	For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
	Gal 5:21	Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
	Tts 3:3	For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
	Jam 3:14	But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
	Jam 4:5	Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

or else I die

	Gen 35:16	And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
	Gen 35:17	And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
	Gen 35:18	And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
	Gen 35:19	And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.
	Gen 37:11	And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
	Num 11:15	And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
	Num 11:29	And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
	1Ki 19:4	But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
	Job 3:1	After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
	Job 3:2	And Job spake, and said,
	Job 3:3	Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
	Job 3:11	Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
	Job 3:20	Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
	Job 3:21	Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
	Job 3:22	Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
	Job 5:2	For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
	Job 13:19	Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
	Jer 20:14	Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
	Jer 20:15	Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
	Jer 20:16	And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
	Jer 20:17	Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].
	Jer 20:18	Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
	Jhn 4:3	He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
	Jhn 4:8	(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
	2Cr 7:10	For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

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