²⁰ “‘If a man has sexual relations with his aunt,^(A) he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless.^(B)

¹⁴ “‘Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.^(A)

²⁹ For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’^(A)

²⁵ “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace^(A) among the people.”

⁷ But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.