Gen 16:2-3, 30:9 | ESV | STEP | And Sarai said to Abram , Behold now , the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant ; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai .

Genesis 16:2-3

2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children ^{▼▼Hebrew be built up, which sounds like the Hebrew for children} by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 So, after Abram ^bhad lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

Genesis 30:9

9 When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and ^cgave her to Jacob as a wife.