Genesis 16:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Sarai said to Abram: “The Lord has kept me from bearing children. Have intercourse with my maid; perhaps I will have sons through her.” Abram obeyed Sarai.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. Her also will I bless; she will give rise to nations, and rulers of peoples will issue from her.

Genesis 18:10

One of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and Sarah will then have a son.” Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, just behind him.

Genesis 19:31

The firstborn said to the younger: “Our father is getting old, and there is not a man in the land to have intercourse with us as is the custom everywhere.

Genesis 20:18

for the Lord had closed every womb in Abimelech’s household on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

Genesis 25:21

Isaac entreated the Lord on behalf of his wife, since she was sterile. The Lord heard his entreaty, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 3:12

The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.”

Genesis 3:17

To the man he said: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You shall not eat from it, Cursed is the ground because of you! In toil you shall eat its yield all the days of your life.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and made her fruitful.

Genesis 30:6

Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; indeed he has heeded my plea and given me a son.” Therefore she named him Dan.

Psalm 127:3

Certainly sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward.

Exodus 21:4

But if his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to her master and the man shall leave alone.

Ruth 4:11

All those at the gate, including the elders, said, “We do. May the Lord make this woman come into your house like Rachel and Leah, who between them built up the house of Israel. Prosper in Ephrathah! Bestow a name in Bethlehem!