Genesis 16:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing. Go in unto my handmaid; it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,

Cross References

Exodus 21:4

But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters: the woman and her children shall be her master's. But he himself shall go out with his raiment.

Genesis 18:10

And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying; and Sara thy wife shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

Psalm 127:3

Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Ruth 4:11

Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients answered: We are witnesses. The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem.

Genesis 30:22

The Lord also remembering Rachel heard her, and opened her womb,

Genesis 25:21

And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

Genesis 20:18

For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 17:16

And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless: and he shell become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Genesis 3:12

And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Genesis 30:6

And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son. And therefore she called his name Dan.

Genesis 19:31

And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:30

And Sarai was barren, and had no children.