Genesis 16:2
At that time Sarai said to Abram, “Husband, I am childless. God has withheld children from me. Take my working woman, take her for a wife, you two sleep together. Maybe she will have a child for me.” He replied, “Yes.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
3After that Sarai gave that woman Hagar to Abram for a wife.
Cross References
Genesis 3:12The man said to him, “You gave me this woman. She [emphasised] gave me (food) from that tree. I ate the food.”
Genesis 11:30Sarai could not have a child, she was staying without children.
Genesis 18:10God said to him, “Truly after a year I will return, Sarah will give birth to a child, she will have a boy.” Nearby, inside the tent, Sarah was listening.
Genesis 25:21Isaac and his wife were staying there a long time without children. Isaac asked God, “Will you give my wife a child.” God listened to him, afterwards his wife became pregnant.
Genesis 30:3Rachel said to Jacob, “That woman now, my worker, Bilhah. You two sleep together. She will get a child for me. That child will be mine.” Like that Rachel spoke to him.
Genesis 30:9Leah was thinking, “For a long time I did not give birth to a child. I will give my working woman to my husband. She will get a child for me.”
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 →