¹⁷ And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

²² And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

¹⁷ Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

²³ And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the Lord establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

²⁰ And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

¹³ And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

³ Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.