Genesis 16:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Sarai told Abram, “The Lord has not allowed me to have children, so sleep with my slave. Maybe she can have a son, and I will accept him as my own.” Abram did what Sarai said.

Cross References

Exodus 21:4

If the slave is not married, the master can give him a wife. If that wife gives birth to sons or daughters, she and her children will belong to the master. After the slave is finished with his years of service, he will be made free.

Genesis 18:10

Then one of them said, “I will come again in the spring. At that time your wife Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was listening in the tent and heard these things.

Genesis 3:17

Then God said to the man, “I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a gift from the Lord, a reward from a mother’s womb.

Ruth 4:11

So all the elders and the people who were near the city gates said, “We are witnesses to all of this. And may the Lord bless this woman who is coming into your home to be like Rachel and Leah. They are the ones who had many children to make the people of Israel strong. And may you become powerful in the tribe of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem!

Genesis 30:22

Then God heard Rachel’s prayer and made it possible for Rachel to have children.

Genesis 25:21

Isaac’s wife could not have children. So Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord heard Isaac’s prayer, and he allowed Rebekah to become pregnant.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her. I will give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many new nations. Kings of nations will come from her.”

Genesis 3:12

The man said, “The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it.”

Genesis 30:6

Rachel said, “God has listened to my prayer. He decided to give me a son.” So she named this son Dan.

Genesis 19:31

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Everywhere on the earth, men and women marry and have a family. But our father is old, and there are no men around here to give us children.

Genesis 11:30

Sarai did not have any children because she was not able to have children.