virgin birth

Genesis 3:15 has generally been understood to be a prophecy of the Messiah. Hislop in The Two Babylons suggests that distorted views of the virgin birth in other religions find their origin in a memory of this promise. The ESV of the text reads:

I will put enmity between you and the woman,
 and between your offspring[a] and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
 and you shall bruise his heel.”