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To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis Chapter 3: Verse 16
Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel. The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son."
As she breathed her last,for she was dying,she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis Chapter 35: Verses 15 - 18
When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, "This one came out first."
But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, "So this is how you have broken out!" And he was named Perez.
Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out and he was given the name Zerah.
Genesis Chapter 38: Verses 27 - 30
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
"When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."
The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?"
The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
Exodus Chapter 1: Verses 15 - 21
His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains.
As she was dying, the women attending her said, "Don't despair; you have given birth to a son." But she did not respond or pay any attention.
She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel"-because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel Chapter 4: Verses 19 - 21
Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.
Isaiah Chapter 13: Verse 8
At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.
Isaiah Chapter 21: Verse 3
As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O LORD.
Isaiah Chapter 26: Verse 17
I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child, the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, "Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers."
Jeremiah Chapter 4: Verse 31
Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale?
Jeremiah Chapter 30: Verse 6
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
John Chapter 16: Verse 21
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
But women will be saved through childbearing,if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
1 Timothy Chapter 2: Verses 13 - 15
So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.
1 Timothy Chapter 5: Verse 14
She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.
Revelation Chapter 12: Verse 2
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