Genesis 16:2

World English Bible (2000)

Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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  • Gen 3:1-6 : 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" 4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • Gen 3:12 : 12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
  • Gen 3:17 : 17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
  • Gen 18:10 : 10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 30:2-4 : 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" 3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her." 4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
  • Gen 30:6 : 6 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
  • Gen 30:9-9 : 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.
  • Gen 30:22 : 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Exod 21:4 : 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
  • Ruth 4:11 : 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 16:1
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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

  • Gen 16:3-6
    4 verses
    85%

    3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

    4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

    5 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."

    6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

  • Gen 16:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

    16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

  • Gen 11:29-30
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    77%

    29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

    30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • Gen 17:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

    16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

  • Gen 16:8-9
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    77%

    8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

    9 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

  • Gen 15:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

    3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

  • Gen 24:36
    76%

    36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 18:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

    12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

    13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

  • Gen 12:16-19
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    75%

    16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

    17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

  • Gen 21:12
    74%

    12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

  • Gen 25:12
    74%

    12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

  • Gen 21:2
    74%

    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Gen 20:2
    73%

    2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • Gen 16:11
    73%

    11 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

  • Gen 12:11
    73%

    11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.