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Rachel, once shepherdess of a plague-thinned flock, cried give me children or I die, and Jacob's anger answered that children come only from God.
Hagar filled with child on the first night, then whispered that Sarah's piety was a sham, while the mistress had waited through ninety empty years.
Abram pitched Sarai's tent before he pitched his own. Then the grain failed, and he asked her to tell the Egyptians she was his sister.
At the equinox and solstice, stored water turned dangerous in folk fear. Households set iron in the jugs, letters of the four mothers as a seal.
Sarah said the Lord had shut her up. Shut, not sealed over. Then she walked across the tent and put her Egyptian handmaid into her husband's hands.
God saw Leah hated and opened her womb, but she gave clean thanks only at Judah, unaware seven wicked kings already hid inside that praise.
