She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”
But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple.
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