13 Bible Verses About Gender Selection

The Bible does not discuss choosing a baby’s sex. Psalm 139:13-14 and Jeremiah 1:5 say God forms and knows a child in the womb, and Genesis 1:27 says he made both male and female in his image. Numbers 27:6-7 and Job 42:15 give daughters an inheritance where sons inherited first, and in Ruth 4:15 the women of Bethlehem call Naomi’s daughter-in-law better to her than seven sons. In Exodus 1:16 the king of Egypt, afraid of how numerous the Israelites…