^2 (A)So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord ^(B)has restrained me from bearing children. Please, ^(C)go in to my maid; perhaps I shall ^[a]obtain children by her.” And Abram ^(D)heeded the voice of Sarai.

⁴ If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

¹⁰ And He said, “I will certainly return to you ^(A)according to the time of life, and behold, ^(B)Sarah your wife shall have a son.”

(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, ^(A)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree ^(B)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

¹¹ And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. ^(A)The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who ^(B)built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in ^(C)Ephrathah and be famous in ^(D)Bethlehem.

²² Then God ^(A)remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and ^(B)opened her womb.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and ^(A)gave her to Jacob as wife. ¹⁰ And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

² And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, ^(A)“Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

³ So she said, “Here is ^(B)my maid Bilhah; go in to her, ^(C)and she will bear a child on my knees, ^(D)that I also may ^[a]have children by her.” ⁴ Then she gave him Bilhah her maid ^(E)as wife, and Jacob went in to her.