Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

they continued to be barren. After the Torah revelation, they knew the many promises and blessings placed upon a firstborn son and desired that their firstborn child would be a son (Num. 18:15–16). It has always intrigued me that the barren women in the Bible always gave birth to a son, not a daughter. I have wondered if the ancients understood something about the timing of conception that we may not understand today. Were there certain things they did to assist in ensuring the child would be a boy and not a girl? My wife once told me about a doctor’s theory of conceiving a boy. The doctor says the male sperm carrying the Y chromosome (a boy) moves faster than the X chromosome (for a girl). The doctor suggests that to conceive a boy, the couple should have intercourse no more than twenty-four hours before ovulation to no more than twelve hours past ovulation.2 Some doctors believe having intercourse earlier in your monthly cycle is more likely to produce a son. There is a Chinese legend about an ancient Chinese gender chart found more than seven hundred years ago near a royal tomb in Beijing, which revealed that a woman can conceive a son based on the mother’s age and month of conception.3 Others suggest that potassium in the woman is necessary to conceive a child.4 I am certain the suggestions are endless. However, from a covenant perspective, prayer and God’s favor are the two primary keys for conceiving a child. There are several dynamic promises in the Torah that women should read and accept. They reveal that God will prevent a miscarriage, and He will make the barren womb conceive.