Genesis 16:3

So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

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And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

In Context

2And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

4And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:5And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

Genesis 25:6But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.

Genesis 30:4So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Genesis 32:22And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

Judges 19:1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:2-4

Abram, Sarai, and Hagar. ( b. c. 1911.) 1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. We… Read the whole commentary →

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