Genesis 16:2

Free Bible Version

so Sarai said to Abram, “Please listen to me. The Lord hasn't let me have any children. So please go and sleep with my slave. Maybe I can have a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai had suggested.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Sarai wasn't able to become pregnant and so had no children.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and I promise to give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will become the mother of nations, and kings will be among her descendants.”

Genesis 18:10

Then one said, “I promise you that I will come back to visit you about this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was listening, hiding just inside the entrance to the tent behind him.

Genesis 19:31

Sometime later the older daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is growing old, and there's no men left to give us children like everyone does.

Genesis 20:18

For the Lord had made all the women unable to have children because Abraham's wife, Sarah, had been taken.

Genesis 25:21

Isaac prayed to the Lord for help on behalf of his wife because she couldn't have children. The Lord answered his prayer and she became pregnant.

Genesis 3:12

“It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” Adam replied.

Genesis 3:17

He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.

Genesis 30:22

Then God paid attention to Rachel and listened to her appeals, and helped her to have children.

Genesis 30:6

Rachel said, “God has judged in my favor! He listened to me and gave me a son.” So she named him Dan.

Psalm 127:3

Children certainly are a gift from the Lord, for a family is a blessing.

Exodus 21:4

If his master provides him a wife and she has children with him, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall be freed.

Ruth 4:11

The elders and all the people present at the town gate said, “Yes, we are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah who between them gave birth to the people of Israel. May you become prosperous in Ephrathah, and famous in Bethlehem.