"And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother of] nations; kings of peoples shall be from her."

And He said, "I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son." (Sarah was listening in the tent door which [was] behind him.)

for the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she [was] barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And Jacob's anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, "[Am] I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

So she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear [a child] on my knees, that I also may have children by her."

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.

Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

Behold, children [are] a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb [is] a reward.

So she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear [a child] on my knees, that I also may have children by her."

Then Rachel said, "God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.

"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.

And all the people who [were] at the gate, and the elders, said, "[We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"

"but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' "

"For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."