Yet despite the false starts, and the trials, and the years of famine, and the childlessness, and the infertility, the seed of Abraham survives, and the promise is reiterated: "I will go down myself with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you back."

但尽管有错误的开始，试验和多年饥荒，断子绝孙和贫瘠，亚伯拉罕的子孙还是得以幸免，许诺被重新申明：,“我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来“

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Also according to the Nuzi texts, if a wife is barren, she is to provide a maidservant as a substitute to bear her husband's children. And this is something that happens with three out of the four matriarchs, who are afflicted with infertility: Sarah, Rachel and Leah.

根据Nuzi文件，如果妻子不能生育,那作为替代她就要让自己的女仆为自己的丈夫生养后代,女族长中四分之三都会出现这种情况,她们饱受不孕的折磨，撒拉、拉结和利亚都是这样。

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