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Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
Genesis Chapter 11: Verse 30
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Genesis Chapter 16: Verses 1 - 2
Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
Genesis Chapter 17: Verse 17
Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
Genesis Chapter 25: Verse 21
When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Genesis Chapter 29: Verse 31
A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was sterile and remained childless.
The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, "You are sterile and childless, but you are going to conceive and have a son.
Judges Chapter 13: Verses 2 - 3
He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
1 Samuel Chapter 1: Verse 2
But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb.
And because the LORD had closed her womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.
1 Samuel Chapter 1: Verses 5 - 6
He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 113: Verse 9
"Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.
Isaiah Chapter 54: Verse 1
But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren; and they were both well along in years.
Luke Chapter 1: Verse 7
Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.
Luke Chapter 1: Verse 36
For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'
Luke Chapter 23: Verse 29
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