SinaiGenesis 25:22
American Standard Version
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.
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Genesis 25:22 in other translations
The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.
Genesis 25:22 in context
- 20and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- 21And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- 22And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.
- 23And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels: And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; And the elder shall serve the younger.
- 24And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.