CONCEPTION

Passages on this topic · 40

• Genesis 21:1

  Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

• Genesis 21:2

  Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 30:22

  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

• Judges 13:3

  Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

• Judges 13:4

  Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing:

• Judges 13:5

  for, behold, you shall conceive, and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

• Judges 13:6

  Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;

• Judges 13:7

  but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

• Judges 13:8

  Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”

• Judges 13:9

  God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field, but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.

• Judges 13:10

  The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me,”

• Judges 13:11

  Manoah arose, and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said, “I am.”

• Judges 13:12

  Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”

• Judges 13:13

  Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

• Judges 13:14

  She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”

• Judges 13:15

  Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”

• Judges 13:16

  Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.

• Judges 13:17

  Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”

• Judges 13:18

  Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?”

• Judges 13:19

  So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.

• Judges 13:20

  For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

• Judges 13:21

  But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.

• Judges 13:22

  Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”

• Judges 13:23

  But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t he have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

• Judges 13:24

  The woman bore a son, and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

• 1 Samuel 1:19

  They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

• 1 Samuel 1:20

  When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

• Matthew 1:18

  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

• Matthew 1:20

  But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

• Luke 1:24

  After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

• Luke 1:25

  “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

• Luke 1:31

  Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’

• Luke 1:32

  He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

• Luke 1:33

  and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

• Luke 1:34

  Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

• Luke 1:35

  The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

• Luke 1:36

  Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

• Luke 1:37

  For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

• Luke 1:58

  Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.