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Genesis 16:1–5

Hagar and Ishmael

16 Now Sarai,k Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.l But she had an Egyptian slavem named Hagar;n 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.o Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”p

Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaanq ten years,r Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar,s and she conceived.

When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.t 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”u

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k

Ge 11:29

l

Ge 11:30 Lk 1:7 Lk 1:36 Ga 4:24–25

m

Ge 21:9 Ge 24:61 Ge 29:24 Ge 29:29 Ge 31:33 Ge 46:18

n

Ge 16:3–4 Ge 16:8 Ge 16:15 Ge 21:14 Ge 25:12

o

Ge 29:31 Ge 30:2

p

Ge 19:32 Ge 30:3–4 Ge 30:9–10

q

Ge 12:5

r

Ge 12:4

s

Ge 16:1

t

Ge 30:1 1 Sa 1:6

u

Ge 31:53 Ex 5:21 Jdg 11:27 1 Sa 24:12 1 Sa 24:15 1 Sa 26:10 1 Sa 26:23 Ps 50:6 Ps 75:7