Genesis 16:3

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After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, and gave her to Abram as a wife.

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  • Gen 12:4-5 : 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people they had gained in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
  • Gen 16:5 : 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "The wrong done to me is your fault. I gave my maidservant into your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, I am despised in her eyes. May the LORD judge between you and me."
  • Gen 25:6 : 6 But to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still alive, he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the land of the east.
  • Gen 28:9 : 9 So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, as an additional wife to his existing wives.
  • Gen 30:4 : 4 So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.
  • Gen 30:9 : 9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
  • Gen 32:22 : 22 So the gift passed on ahead of him while he stayed that night in the camp.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons:
  • Judg 19:1-4 : 1 In those days, there was no king in Israel. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, and he took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah. 2 But his concubine was unfaithful to him and left him, going to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She stayed there for four months. 3 Then her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He took with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When he arrived at her father’s house, the woman’s father saw him and was glad to welcome him. 4 His father-in-law, the woman’s father, persuaded him to stay, and he remained with him for three days. They ate, drank, and spent the nights there.
  • 2 Sam 5:13 : 13 After coming from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
  • 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

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  • Gen 16:1-2
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    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

    2So Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the LORD has prevented me from having children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." And Abram listened to Sarai's voice.

  • Gen 16:4-9
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    4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When Hagar saw that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

    5Then Sarai said to Abram, "The wrong done to me is your fault. I gave my maidservant into your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, I am despised in her eyes. May the LORD judge between you and me."

    6Abram said to Sarai, "Your maidservant is in your hands; do with her whatever you think is best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar, and she fled from her presence.

    7The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

    8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."

    9Then the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."

  • Gen 16:15-16
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    15Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

    16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12This is the account of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

  • Gen 12:16-20
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    16He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

    17But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

    18So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?"

    19"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go."

    20Then Pharaoh gave orders to his men to send him away with his wife and everything he had.

  • Gen 20:2
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    2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister,' and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.

  • Gen 11:29-31
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    29Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

    30Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

    31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

  • Gen 21:21
    73%

    21While living in the wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

  • Gen 17:15
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    15Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

  • Gen 12:11
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    11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

  • Gen 24:36
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    36Sarah, my master’s wife, bore him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

  • Gen 21:9-10
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    9But Sarah saw the son whom Hagar, the Egyptian, had borne to Abraham laughing mockingly.

    10And she said to Abraham, 'Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.'

  • Gen 12:14
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    14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

  • Gen 12:5
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    5Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people they had gained in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

  • Gen 21:14
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    14Early in the morning, Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulder, along with the boy, and sent her away. She departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.