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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).
And they had no son, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
Thus has the Lord dealt with me, in the days in which he looked upon me to take away my reproach among men.
And behold Elizabeth, your relative, even she is pregnant with a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her called barren;