But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.

Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "The LORD has seen my trouble, and now my husband will love me"; so she named him Reuben.

Once again she became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She said, "Now my husband will be bound more tightly to me, because I have borne him three sons"; so she named him Levi.

Well then, the Lord himself will give you a sign: a young woman who is pregnant will have a son and will name him 'Immanuel.'

She will have a son, and you will name him Jesus---because he will save his people from their sins."

"A virgin will become pregnant and have a son, and he will be called Immanuel" (which means, "God is with us").

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. You are to name him John.

You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

Zechariah asked for a writing pad and wrote, "His name is John." How surprised they all were!

He said, "God has made me forget all my sufferings and all my father's family"; so he named his first son Manasseh.

He also said, "God has given me children in the land of my trouble"; so he named his second son Ephraim.

So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, and explained, "I asked the LORD for him."

Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "The LORD has seen my trouble, and now my husband will love me"; so she named him Reuben.

She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "The LORD has given me this son also, because he heard that I was not loved"; so she named him Simeon.

Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God,

who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Then the LORD said, "I have seen how cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings,

Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?

He does not neglect the poor or ignore their suffering; he does not turn away from them, but answers when they call for help."