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Genesis 25:22
and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, `If it is right--why am I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.
Genesis 25:22 · Young's Literal Translation
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Genesis 25:22 in other translations
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of the LORD.
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In context
19 And these are births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;
20 and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.
21 And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she is barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,
22 and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, `If it is right--why am I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.
23 And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the one people than the other people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'
24 And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins are in her womb;
25 and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;
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