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To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.

And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.

Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;

Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.

And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,

And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,

And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.

Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,

No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.

And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.