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For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Ge 16:2; 30:1-23; 1Sa 1:6,27; Isa 47:9; 49:21; Lu 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Ge 11:30; 25:21; 29:31; Jg 13:2-3; Lu 1:7,36).
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.
"Thus the Lord has done to me, in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people."
And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.