Genesis 16:2

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Genesis 16:2

She said to Abram: Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Genesis 3:1-6

Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals Jehovah God had made. He said to the woman: Did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?

Genesis 3:12

Adam said: The woman you put here with me gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.

Genesis 18:10

He said: Next year I will give you and Sarah a son. (Sarah was listening in the tent door behind him.)

Genesis 20:18

Jehovah had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech's household to have children because of Abraham's wife Sarah.

Genesis 25:21

Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife because she was childless. Jehovah answered his prayer. His wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 30:2-4

Jacob became angry with Rachel. He said: I cannot take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children.

Genesis 30:6

Rachel named him Dan, because she said: God has answered my prayers. He has vindicated me and given me a son.

Genesis 30:9-10

When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb.

Exodus 21:4

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He shall go out alone.

Ruth 4:11

The leaders and the others said: Yes, we are witnesses. May Jehovah make your wife become like Rachel and Leah, who bore many children to Jacob. May you become rich in the clan of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

Psalm 127:3

Children are an inheritance from Jehovah. They are a blessing from him.

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Summary

Genesis 16:2

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

The lord

Obtain children

Genesis 30:3

Exodus 21:4

Ruth 4:11

Hearkened

Genesis 3:1

General references

Genesis 20:18

Bible References

The lord

I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.

He said: Next year I will give you and Sarah a son. (Sarah was listening in the tent door behind him.)

Jehovah had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech's household to have children because of Abraham's wife Sarah.

Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife because she was childless. Jehovah answered his prayer. His wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Jacob became angry with Rachel. He said: I cannot take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children.

Children are an inheritance from Jehovah. They are a blessing from him.

Obtain children

She said: Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her.

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He shall go out alone.

Hearkened

Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals Jehovah God had made. He said to the woman: Did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?

General references

Jehovah had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech's household to have children because of Abraham's wife Sarah.