Genesis 16:2

Good News Translation

and so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me.” Abram agreed with what Sarai said.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Sarai was not able to have children.

Genesis 17:16

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

Genesis 18:10

One of them said, “Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.

Genesis 19:31

The older daughter said to her sister, “Our father is getting old, and there are no men in the whole world to marry us so that we can have children.

Genesis 25:21

Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.

Genesis 3:12

The man answered, “The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”

Genesis 3:17

And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.

Genesis 30:22

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

Genesis 30:6

Rachel said, “God has judged in my favor. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son”; so she named him Dan.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a real blessing.

Exodus 21:4

If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to the master, and the man is to leave by himself.

Ruth 4:11

The leaders and the others said, “Yes, we are witnesses. May the Lord make your wife become like Rachel and Leah, who bore many children to Jacob. May you become rich in the clan of Ephrath and famous in Bethlehem.