22 Finally God remembered Rachel, and God heard and answered her by enabling her to become pregnant.*+ 23 And she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said: “God has taken away my reproach!”+

24 Some days later Elizabeth his wife became pregnant, and she kept herself secluded for five months, saying: 25 “This is how Jehovah* has dealt with me in these days. He has turned his attention to me to take away my reproach among men.”+