1 Samuel 1:5
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
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Genesis 16:1
Now Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. "Give me children, or I will die!" she said to Jacob.


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But to Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

a worthy portion.



Genesis 43:34
And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.



Genesis 45:22
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

he loved



Genesis 29:30,31
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years…



Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

shut up



Genesis 20:18
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.



Genesis 30:2
And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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