Do not have intercourse with your uncle's wife; she, too, is your aunt.

They have no descendants, no survivors.

May all his descendants die, and may his name be forgotten in the next generation.

"This man is condemned to lose his children, to be a man who will never succeed. He will have no descendants who will rule in Judah as David's successors. I, the LORD, have spoken."

They had no children because Elizabeth could not have any, and she and Zechariah were both very old.

"Now at last the Lord has helped me," she said. "He has taken away my public disgrace!"

For the days are coming when people will say, 'How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!'