²⁰ “If a man has sex with his uncle’s wife, he has violated his uncle. Both the man and woman will be punished for their sin, and they will die childless.

¹⁴ “Do not violate your uncle, your father’s brother, by having sexual relations with his wife, for she is your aunt.

²⁹ For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’

²⁵ “How kind the Lord is!” she exclaimed. “He has taken away my disgrace of having no children.”

⁷ They had no children because Elizabeth was unable to conceive, and they were both very old.