Genesis 16:2
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2 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.(A)
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Exodus 21:4
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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.
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Genesis 18:10
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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.(A)
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Genesis 3:17
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17 And to the man[a] 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;(A)
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- 3.17 Or to Adam
Psalm 127:3
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3 Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb a reward.(A)
Ruth 4:11
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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[a] in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem;(A)
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- 4.11 Or wealth
Genesis 30:22
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22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb.(A)
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Genesis 30:9-10
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9 When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.(A) 10 Then Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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Genesis 30:2-4
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2 Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”(A) 3 Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her.”(B) 4 So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.(C)
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Genesis 25:21
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21 Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because she was barren, and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.(A)
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Genesis 20:18
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18 For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.(A)
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Genesis 17:16
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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.”(A)
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Genesis 3:12
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12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.”(A)
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