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Cain and Abel
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
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The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.
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So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
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Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.
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Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
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Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”
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and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
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God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
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she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er.
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He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
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About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”
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As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. “I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added, “See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”
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and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
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“If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows.
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“Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
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The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.
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You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”
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But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
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He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
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But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb.
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Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.
