Genesis 16:2

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Sarai said to Avram, *See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.* Avram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.*

Genesis 18:10

He said, *I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.* Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

Genesis 19:31

The firstborn said to the younger, *Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

Genesis 20:18

For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Avimelekh, because of Sarah, Avraham's wife.

Genesis 25:21

Yitzchak entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rivka his wife conceived.

Genesis 3:12

The man said, *The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.*

Genesis 3:17

To Adam he said, *Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 30:22

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Genesis 30:6

Rachel said, *God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.* Therefore called she his name Dan.

Psalm 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Exodus 21:4

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

Ruth 4:11

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two built the house of Yisra'el: and do you worthily in Efratah, and be famous in Beit-Lechem: