Genesis 16:2

The English Standar Version

And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children[1] by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and moreover, I will give[5] you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."

Genesis 18:10

The LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

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 earth.

Genesis 20:18

For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 25:21

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

Genesis 3:12

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

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall 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 judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.[3]

Psalm 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb 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 be her master's, and he shall go out alone.

Ruth 4:11

Then all the people who were at the gate and 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 act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,