(And Jacob journeyed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader,) and it came to pass when he drew near to Habratha, to enter into Ephratha, Rachel labored [in childbirth]; and she had hard labor.

And it came to pass in her giving up the ghost (for she was dying), that she called his name, The son of my pain; but his father called his name Benjamin.

And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas was with child, [and was] about to bring forth. And she heard the news, that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead; and she wept and was delivered, for her pains came upon her.

And she called the child Ichabod, because of the ark of God, and because of her father-in-law, and because of her husband.

Trembling took hold of them; there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in labor; and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman; I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.

And as a woman in labor draws near to be delivered, [and] cries out in her pain; so have we been to Your beloved.

We have conceived, O Lord, because of Your fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of Your salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth; we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.

the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form [Him] with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.

For I have heard your groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, [saying], Woe is me, for my soul faints because of the slain!

We have heard the report of them; our hands are weakened. Anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.

What will you say when they shall visit you, for you have taught them lessons to rule over you; shall not pangs seize you as a woman in travail?

O inhabitant of Lebanon, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman have come upon you.

Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.

And now, why have you known calamities? Is there no king in you? Or has your counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in labor have seized upon you?

Be in pain, and strengthen yourself, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in labor: for now you shall go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the plain, and you shall reach even to Babylon: there shall the Lord your God deliver you, and there shall He redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.

A woman, whenever she gives birth, has sorrow, because her hour has come; but whenever the child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as labor pains upon the woman that is pregnant, and they shall by no means escape.

Nevertheless she shall be saved through childbirth, if they remain in faith and love, and sanctification, with self-control.

Have you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? Be still, to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him.

and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her in the day in which he should hear, then thus shall all her vows be binding, and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand.

But if her husband should straitly forbid [her] in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband shall confirm it to her, or her husband shall cancel it.

And let the law of the king which he shall have made, be widely proclaimed in his kingdom. And so shall all the women give honor to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband [does]. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife [does].

But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

let your women be silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak, but to be in subjection, just as the law also says.

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

But just as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Let a woman learn in silence with all submission.

And I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.

temperate, pure, homemakers, good, submitting to their own husbands, lest the word of God be blasphemed.

Wives, likewise, subject yourselves to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, [that] by the conduct of their wives, without a word, they shall be gained [for Christ],

Of whom let it not be the outward adorning of braiding of hair, and wearing of gold, or of putting on of [fine] clothes,

For thus formerly, the holy women who hoped on God also adorned themselves, subjecting themselves to their own husbands,