Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the lad, and because of your female slave; in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.
And he dwelled in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
And, behold, your cousin Elisabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which engenders to bondage, which is Agar.
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bore not.
But to Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.