Genesis 16:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Sarai said to Abram, ‘Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.’ And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Cross References

Exodus 21:4

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.

Genesis 18:10

The Lord said, ‘I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son! ’  Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

Genesis 3:17

And he said to the man, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, “Do not eat from it”: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labour all the days of your life.

Ruth 4:11

All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said, ‘We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah,  who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

Genesis 25:21

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless.  The Lord was receptive to his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Genesis 20:18

for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her.  I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.’

Genesis 3:12

The man replied,  ‘The woman you gave to be with me #– #she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.’

Genesis 30:6

Rachel said, ‘God has vindicated me; yes, he has heard me and given me a son,’ so she named him Dan.

Genesis 19:31

Then the firstborn said to the younger, ‘Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us as is the custom of all the land.

Genesis 11:30

Sarai was unable to conceive;  she did not have a child.