16 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

²¹ And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

³¹ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

30 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

²² And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

² And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

⁵ But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.

⁹ He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

⁷ And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.