And Abram said, Master and Lord, what shall You give me? Seeing I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus [is my heir].

And Abram said, [I am grieved] since You have given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Hagar.

And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

And Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days, and the custom of women ceased with Sarah.

And Sarah laughed in herself, saying, The thing has not as yet happened to me, even until now, and my lord is old.

And the Lord visited Sarah, as He said, and the Lord did to Sarah, as He spoke.

And she conceived and bore to Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time according as the Lord spoke to him.

Now Isaac prayed to the Lord concerning Rebecca his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebecca conceived in her womb.

And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

And Rachel, having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die.

And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of the womb?

And there was a man of Zorah, of the family of the kindred of Dan, and his name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and bore no children.

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Anna, and the name of the second [was] Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Anna had no child.

who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.

But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.

And behold, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for she who was called barren.