Quotes about Children
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
— Genesis 16:1
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
— Genesis 16:2
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
— Genesis 18:19
She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
— Genesis 21:7
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
— Genesis 21:9
and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
— Genesis 25:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
— Genesis 30:2
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
— Genesis 30:3
and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.
— Genesis 30:5
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
— Genesis 30:9
“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.
— Genesis 30:20
Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
— Genesis 31:16