Bible Cross References
the Lord
Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: "May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!"
Psalm 127:3-5
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Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a real blessing.
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The sons a man has when he is young are like arrows in a soldier's hand.
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Happy is the man who has many such arrows. He will never be defeated when he meets his enemies in the place of judgment.
Psalm 128:3-6
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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in your home, and your children will be like young olive trees around your table.
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A man who obeys the LORD will surely be blessed like this.
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May the LORD bless you from Zion! May you see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life!
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May you live to see your grandchildren! Peace be with Israel!
Rachel
Genesis 29:32-35
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Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "The LORD has seen my trouble, and now my husband will love me"; so she named him Reuben.
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She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "The LORD has given me this son also, because he heard that I was not loved"; so she named him Simeon.
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Once again she became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She said, "Now my husband will be bound more tightly to me, because I have borne him three sons"; so she named him Levi.
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Then she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "This time I will praise the LORD"; so she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
Genesis 30:1-24
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But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."
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Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "I can't take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children."
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She said, "Here is my slave Bilhah; sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. In this way I can become a mother through her."
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So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.
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Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.
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Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son"; so she named him Dan.
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Bilhah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a second son.
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Rachel said, "I have fought a hard fight with my sister, but I have won"; so she named him Naphtali.
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When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.
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Then Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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Leah said, "I have been lucky"; so she named him Gad.
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Zilpah bore Jacob another son,
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and Leah said, "How happy I am! Now women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher.
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During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
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Leah answered, "Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son's mandrakes." Rachel said, "If you will give me your son's mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight."
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When Jacob came in from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You are going to sleep with me tonight, because I have paid for you with my son's mandrakes." So he had intercourse with her that night.
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God answered Leah's prayer, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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Leah said, "God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband"; so she named her son Issachar.
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Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
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She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now my husband will accept me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she named him Zebulun.
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Later she bore a daughter, whom she named Dinah.
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Then God remembered Rachel; he answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.
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She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "God has taken away my disgrace by giving me a son.
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May the LORD give me another son"; so she named him Joseph.
Genesis 35:16-20
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Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.
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When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy."
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But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
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When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.
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Jacob set up a memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day.
Genesis 46:8-27
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The members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt with him were his oldest son Reuben
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and Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
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Simeon and his sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
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Levi and his sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.
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Issachar and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.
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Zebulun and his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
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These are the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah. In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three.
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Gad and his sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli.
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Asher and his sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.
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These sixteen are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah.
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Jacob's wife Rachel bore him two sons: Joseph and Benjamin.
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In Egypt Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis.
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Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
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These fourteen are the descendants of Jacob by Rachel.
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Dan and his son Hushim.
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Naphtali and his sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
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These seven are the descendants of Jacob by Bilhah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel.
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The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not including his sons' wives.
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Two sons were born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's family who went there.
Numbers 26:1-65
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After the epidemic the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron,
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"Take a census by families of the whole community of Israel, of all men twenty years old or older who are fit for military service."
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Moses and Eleazar obeyed and called together all the men of that age group. They assembled in the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho. These were the Israelites who came out of Egypt:
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The tribe of Reuben (Reuben was the oldest son of Jacob): the clans of Hanoch, Pallu,
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These clans numbered 43,730 men.
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The descendants of Pallu were Eliab
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and his sons Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. (These are the Dathan and Abiram who were chosen by the community. They defied Moses and Aaron and joined the followers of Korah when they rebelled against the LORD.
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The ground opened and swallowed them, and they died with Korah and his followers when fire destroyed 250 men; they became a warning to the people.
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But the sons of Korah were not killed.)
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The tribe of Simeon: the clans of Nemuel, Jamin, Jachin,
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These clans numbered 22,200 men.
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The tribe of Gad: the clans of Zephon, Haggi, Shuni,
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These clans numbered 40,500 men.
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The tribe of Judah: the clans of Shelah, Perez, Zerah, Hezron, and Hamul. (Two of Judah's sons, Er and Onan, had died in the land of Canaan.)
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These clans numbered 76,500 men.
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The tribe of Issachar: the clans of Tola, Puah,
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These clans numbered 64,300 men.
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The tribe of Zebulun: the clans of Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
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These clans numbered 60,500 men.
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The tribes of Joseph, who was the father of two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
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The tribe of Manasseh. Machir son of Manasseh was the father of Gilead, and the following clans traced their ancestry to Gilead:
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the clans of Iezer, Helek,
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Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
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These clans numbered 52,700 men.
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The tribe of Ephraim: the clans of Shuthelah, Becher, and Tahan.
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The clan of Eran traced its descent from Shuthelah.
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These clans numbered 32,500 men. These are the clans descended from Joseph.
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The tribe of Benjamin: the clans of Bela, Ashbel, Ahiram,
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Shephupham, and Hupham.
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The clans of Ard and Naaman traced their descent from Bela.
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These clans numbered 45,600 men.
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The tribe of Dan: the clan of Shuham,
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which numbered 64,400 men.
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The tribe of Asher: the clans of Imnah, Ishvi, and Beriah.
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The clans of Heber and Malchiel traced their descent from Beriah.
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Asher had a daughter named Serah.
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These clans numbered 53,400 men.
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The tribe of Naphtali: the clans of Jahzeel, Guni,
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These clans numbered 45,400 men.
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The total number of the Israelite men was 601,730.
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The LORD said to Moses,
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"Divide the land among the tribes, according to their size.
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Divide the land by drawing lots, and give a large share to a large tribe and a small one to a small tribe."
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The tribe of Levi consisted of the clans of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Their descendants included the subclans of Libni, Hebron, Mahli, Mushi, and Korah. Kohath was the father of Amram,
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who was married to Levi's daughter Jochebed, who was born in Egypt. She bore Amram two sons, Aaron and Moses, and a daughter, Miriam.
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Aaron had four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unholy fire to the LORD.
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The male Levites who were one month old or older numbered 23,000. They were listed separately from the rest of the Israelites, because they were not given any property in Israel.
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All these clans were listed by Moses and Eleazar when they took a census of the Israelites in the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.
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There was not even one man left among those whom Moses and Aaron had listed in the first census in the Sinai Desert.
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The LORD had said that all of them would die in the wilderness, and except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun they all did.
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Deuteronomy 25:9
his brother's widow is to go up to him in the presence of the town leaders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face, and say, 'This is what happens to the man who refuses to give his brother a descendant.'
Proverbs 14:1
Homes are made by the wisdom of women, but are destroyed by foolishness.
Ephratah
Ruth 1:2
Genesis 35:16
Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.
Genesis 35:19
When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.
Psalm 132:6
In Bethlehem we heard about the Covenant Box, and we found it in the fields of Jearim.
Micah 5:2
The LORD says, "Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in Judah, but out of you I will bring a ruler for Israel, whose family line goes back to ancient times."
Matthew 2:6
'Bethlehem in the land of Judah, you are by no means the least of the leading cities of Judah; for from you will come a leader who will guide my people Israel.' "