And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai … Sarai was barren; she had no child. (Gen 11:29-30) And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife. And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. (Gen 25:20-21) And [Laban] gave [Jacob] Rachel his daughter to […]

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