Quotes about Desire
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.
— Genesis 30:1
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
— Genesis 30:3
But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
— Genesis 30:15
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
— Genesis 31:30
And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
— Genesis 34:3
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
— Genesis 34:8
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
— Exodus 20:17
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
— Numbers 11:4
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
— Numbers 11:6
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
— Numbers 11:13
So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
— Numbers 11:34
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
— Numbers 20:3