Genesis 16:2

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So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don’t you sleep with my slave? Maybe I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed with Sarai.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Sarai was not able to have children.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become ⌞a mother of⌟ nations, and kings will come from her.”

Genesis 18:10

The Lord said, “I promise I’ll come back to you next year at this time, and your wife Sarah will have a son.” Sarah happened to be listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind him.

Genesis 19:31

The older daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is old. No men are here. We can’t get married as other people do.

Genesis 20:18

(The Lord had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech’s household to have children because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.)

Genesis 25:21

Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 3:12

The man answered, “That woman, the one you gave me, gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Genesis 3:17

Then he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree, although I commanded you, ‘You must never eat its fruit.’ The ground is cursed because of you. Through hard work you will eat ⌞food that comes⌟ from it every day of your life.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel. God answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.

Genesis 30:6

Rachel said, “Now God has judged in my favor. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son.” So she named him Dan [He Judges].

Psalm 127:3

Children are an inheritance from the Lord. They are a reward from him.

Exodus 21:4

If his master gives him a wife and she gives birth to sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to the master, and the slave must leave by himself.

Ruth 4:11

All the people who were at the gate, including the leaders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make this wife, who is coming into your home, like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built our family of Israel. So show your strength of character in Ephrathah and make a name for yourself in Bethlehem.