Genesis 16:2

Contemporary English Version 1995

and Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine.” Abram agreed,

Cross References

Exodus 21:4

If you give him a wife, and they have children, only the man himself must be set free; his wife and children remain the property of his owner.

Genesis 18:10

One of the guests was the Lord, and he said, “I'll come back about this time next year, and when I do, Sarah will already have a son.” Sarah was behind Abraham, listening at the entrance to the tent.

Genesis 3:17

The Lord said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a blessing and a gift from the Lord.

Ruth 4:11

The town leaders and the others standing there said: We are witnesses to this. And we pray that the Lord will give your wife many children, just as he did Leah and Rachel, the wives of Jacob. May you be a rich man in the tribe of Ephrath and an important man in Bethlehem.

Genesis 30:22

Finally, God remembered Rachel—he answered her prayer by giving her a son. “God has taken away my disgrace,” she said.

Genesis 25:21

Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the Lord to let her have a child, and the Lord answered his prayer.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and you will have a son by her. She will become the mother of nations, and some of her descendants will even be kings.

Genesis 3:12

“It was the woman you put here with me,” the man said. “She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.”

Genesis 30:6

Rachel named him Dan, because she said, “God has answered my prayers. He judged in my favor and has given me a son.”

Genesis 19:31

One day his older daughter said to her sister, “Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry.