Genesis 16:2

Legacy Standard Bible

So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 17:16

And I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

Genesis 18:10

And He said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door which was behind him.

Genesis 19:31

Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.

Genesis 20:18

For Yahweh had utterly shut all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 25:21

And Isaac entreated Yahweh on behalf of his wife because she was barren; and Yahweh was moved by his entreaty. So Rebekah his wife conceived.

Genesis 3:12

And the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:17

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In pain you will eat of it All the days of your life.

Genesis 30:22

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

Genesis 30:6

Then Rachel said, “God has rendered justice to me and has indeed listened to my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him Dan.

Psalm 127:3

¶Behold, children are an inheritance of Yahweh, The fruit of the womb is a reward.

Exodus 21:4

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.

Ruth 4:11

And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh grant the woman who is coming into your home to be like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel, and so you shall achieve excellence in Ephrathah and shall proclaim your name in Bethlehem.