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Deuteronomy 28:4
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. (niv)
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Genesis 33:5
Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children.“ Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered,“ They are the children God has graciously given your servant.” (niv)
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Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them,“ Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (niv)
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Psalms 128:3-4
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.Yes, this will be the blessing for the man who fears the Lord. (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 27
I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 19-1 Samuel 1 20
Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying,“ Because I asked the Lord for him.” (niv)
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Joshua 24:3-4
But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt. (niv)
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Genesis 48:4
and said to me,‘ I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’ (niv)
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Isaiah 8:18
Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion. (niv)
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Genesis 30:1-2
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob,“ Give me children, or I’ll die!”Jacob became angry with her and said,“ Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” (niv)
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Genesis 15:4-5
Then the word of the Lord came to him:“ This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.”He took him outside and said,“ Look up at the sky and count the stars— if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him,“ So shall your offspring be.” (niv)
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Genesis 41:51-52
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said,“ It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”The second son he named Ephraim and said,“ It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.” (niv)
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1 Chronicles 28 5
Of all my sons— and the Lord has given me many— he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. (niv)
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Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,“ Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the cities of their enemies.” (niv)
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1 Samuel 2 20-1 Samuel 2 21
Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying,“ May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to the Lord.” Then they would go home.And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord. (niv)
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Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants, nor will they look with compassion on children. (niv)