And as you read the story, remember its larger context: God's promise to make Abraham the father of a great people through his son, Isaac.

当阅读这个故事时，记住它的大框架：上帝许诺,亚伯拉罕通过他的儿子以撒成为大国之父。

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throwing his papers around, making faces.

把文件撒了满地，拉着脸。

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God heard their moaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

神听见他们的哀声，就记念他与亚伯拉罕，以撒，雅各所立的约。

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Abraham had a son named Isaac. Isaac had a son named Jacob.

亚伯拉罕生以撒，以撒生雅各。

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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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