Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Which things contain an allegory: for these {\i women} are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren.
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were {\i now} well stricken in years.\par
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.