Genesis 11:30
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New International Version (©2011)
Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Sarai was barren; she had no child.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Sarai was barren, so she had not borne children.

NET Bible (©2006)
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Sarai was not able to have children.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

American King James Version
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

American Standard Version
And Sarai was barren; She had no child.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Sarai was barren, and had no children.

Darby Bible Translation
And Sarai was barren: she had no child.

English Revised Version
And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Webster's Bible Translation
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

World English Bible
Sarai was barren. She had no child.

Young's Literal Translation
And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:27-32 Here begins the story of Abram, whose name is famous in both Testaments. Even the children of Eber had become worshippers of false gods. Those who are through grace, heirs of the land of promise, ought to remember what was the land of their birth; what was their corrupt and sinful state by nature. Abram's brethren were, Nahor, out of whose family both Isaac and Jacob had their wives; and Haran, the father of Lot, who died before his father. Children cannot be sure that they shall outlive their parents. Haran died in Ur, before the happy removal of the family out of that idolatrous country. It concerns us to hasten out of our natural state, lest death surprise us in it. We here read of Abram's departure out of Ur of the Chaldees, with his father Terah, his nephew Lot, and the rest of his family, in obedience to the call of God. This chapter leaves them about mid-way between Ur and Canaan, where they dwelt till Terah's death. Many reach to Charran, and yet fall short of Canaan; they are not far from the kingdom of God, and yet never come thither.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 30. - But Sarai was barren; she had no child. Perhaps in contrast to Milcah, who by this time had begun to have a family (Murphy).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But Sarai was barren; she had no child. Aben Ezra observes, there are some that say that Abraham was impotent, and not Sarai barren; the very reverse of the Scriptures; but as he rightly adds, his son Ishmael and his sons by Keturah show the contrary, see Genesis 15:2.

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Terah's Descendants
…29And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelled there.

Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
Genesis 11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.