Genesis 16:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

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  • Gen 13:8-9 : 8 Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers. 9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.
  • Gen 24:10 : 10 And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
  • Exod 2:15 : 15 Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.
  • Job 2:6 : 6 And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.
  • Ps 106:41-42 : 41 And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters. 42 By them they were crushed, and made low under their hands.
  • Prov 14:29 : 29 He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
  • Prov 15:1 : 1 By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.
  • Prov 15:17-18 : 17 Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it. 18 An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.
  • Prov 27:8 : 8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
  • Prov 29:19 : 19 A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.
  • Eccl 10:4 : 4 If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.
  • Jer 38:5 : 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

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  • Gen 16:1-5
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    85%

    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

    2 And 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.

    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.

    4 And 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.

    5 And 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.

  • Gen 16:7-9
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    81%

    7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

    8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

    9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

  • Gen 12:16-19
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    76%

    16 And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

    17 And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

    18 Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

  • Gen 21:9-10
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    75%

    9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

    10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

  • Gen 21:12
    74%

    12 But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

  • Gen 17:15
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    15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

  • Gen 24:36
    72%

    36 And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.

  • Gen 12:11
    72%

    11 Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

  • Gen 16:11
    71%

    11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

  • Gen 20:15
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    15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

  • Gen 18:6
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    6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

  • Gen 12:14
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    14 And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

  • Gen 15:3
    71%

    3 And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.