³⁰ Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.^(A)

Jacob’s Children

³¹ When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved,^(A) he enabled her to conceive,^(B) but Rachel remained childless.

²⁶ and none will miscarry or be barren^(A) in your land. I will give you a full life span.^(B)

² A certain man of Zorah,^(A) named Manoah,^(B) from the clan of the Danites,^(C) had a wife who was childless,^(D) unable to give birth. ³ The angel of the Lord^(E) appeared to her^(F) and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.^(G)

The Future Glory of Zion

³⁶ Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child^(A) in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.

²⁹ For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’^(A)