22And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
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And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-24)Here is, I. Leah fruitful again, after she had, for some time, left off bearing. Jacob, it should seem, associated more with Rachel than with Leah. The law of Moses supposes it a common case that, if a man had two wives, one would be beloved and the other hated, Deut. 21:15. But at length Rachel’s strong passions betrayed her into a bargain with Leah that Jacob should return to her apartment. Reub…
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