Genesis 16:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Cross References

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 alone.

Genesis 18:10

Then one said, “I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him.

Genesis 3:17

And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Ruth 4:11

Then all the people who were at the gate, along with the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you produce children in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem;

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb.

Genesis 25:21

Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because she was barren, and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Genesis 20:18

For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Genesis 3:12

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

Genesis 30:6

Then Rachel said, “God has judged me and has also heard my voice and given me a son”; therefore she named him Dan.

Genesis 19:31

And 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 all the world.

Genesis 11:30

Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.