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Sarai was not able to have children.

But Abram answered, "Sovereign Lord , what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.

You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."

Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,

and so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said.

I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants.

The older daughter said to her sister, "Our father is getting old, and there are no men in the whole world to marry us so that we can have children.

Come on, let's get our father drunk, so that we can sleep with him and have children by him."

Because of what had happened to Sarah, Abraham's wife, the Lord had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech's palace to have children. So Abraham prayed for Abimelech, and God healed him. He also healed his wife and his slave women, so that they could have children.

Then she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

I will also give many children to the son of the slave woman, so that they will become a nation. He too is your son."

So make a vow here in the presence of God that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. I have been loyal to you, so promise that you will also be loyal to me and to this country in which you are living."

Some time later Abraham learned that Milcah had borne eight children to his brother Nahor:

Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.

May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

When the Lord saw that Leah was loved less than Rachel, he made it possible for her to have children, but Rachel remained childless.

Then she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "This time I will praise the Lord "; so she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "I can't take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children."

When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.