This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.

God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.

When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.

Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.

When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

The Manassehites: from Machir, the family of the Machirites (now Machir became the father of Gilead); from Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

Manoah’s wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the Lord empowered him.

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.