But Sarai was baren, and had no chylde.
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TSK · Genesis 25:21
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And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: beholde, nowe the Lorde hath restrayned me, that I can not beare, I pray thee go in to my mayde, it may be that I may be builded by her: and Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.
And God remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull,
And vowed a vowe, and sayd: O Lord of hoastes, if thou wilt loke on the trouble of thyne handmayde and remembre me, and not forget thyne hand mayde, but geue vnto thyne handmayde a man childe, I will geue him vnto the Lorde all the dayes of his lyfe, and there shall no rasor come vpon his head.
And they were helped of the Lorde against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hande, and so were all that were with them: For they cryed to God in the battayle, and he heard them, because they put their trust in him.
So we fasted, and besought our God for this, and he was entreated of vs.
Thou that hearest a prayer: vnto thee shall all fleshe come.
Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde.
The thing that the vngodly is afraide of, shall come vpon hym: but the ryghteous shall haue their desire.
Then if thou callest, the Lorde shall aunswere thee, if thou cryest, he shall say, here I am: yea if thou layest away from thee thy burthens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceassest from vngracious talking:
And they had no chylde, because that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were nowe well stricken in age.
Not only this, but also Rebecca was with chylde by one euen by our father Isaac.