Genesis 16:2

The Passion Translation

so Sarai said to Abram, “Please listen. Since Yahweh has kept me childless, go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps through her I can build you a family.” Abram listened and did what Sarai asked.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Now Sarai was barren and childless.

Genesis 17:16

I will wonderfully bless her, and I will certainly give you a son through her. Yes, I will bless her greatly, and she will become a mother of nations; kings of nations will arise among her children!”

Genesis 18:10

Then one spoke up and said, “I will return about this time next year, when your wife Sarah will certainly have a son.” Sarah overheard it, for she was at the tent door not far behind him.

Genesis 19:31

One day, his firstborn suggested to the younger, “Our father is getting old, and there isn’t a man anywhere who could impregnate us in the normal way.

Genesis 20:18

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

Genesis 25:21

Now, Rebekah was unable to have children, but Isaac pleaded with Yahweh on behalf of his wife because she was barren—and she did get pregnant, for Yahweh responded to Isaac’s prayer.

Genesis 3:12

Adam pointed to the woman and said, “The woman you placed alongside me— she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife instead of me, and you ate from the forbidden tree when I had commanded you not to, the ground will be cursed because of you. You will eat of it through painful toil all the days of your life.

Genesis 30:22

God listened to Rachel’s heart-cry, and had compassion on her, and made her fertile.

Genesis 30:6

and Rachel named him Dan, saying, “God has vindicated me. He heard my voice and gave me a son.”

Psalm 127:3

Children are God’s love-gift; they are heaven’s generous reward.

Ruth 4:11

Then all the elders and all the people who were at the gate said: “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel. May you become famous in Bethlehem! May you become very prosperous!