Genesis 16:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.

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  • Gal 4:24 : 24 By the which things another thing is ment: for these mothers are the two testaments, the one which is Agar of mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage.
  • Gen 12:16 : 16 Who intreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.
  • Gen 15:2-3 : 2 And Abram said, O Lord God, what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse, and the steward of mine house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.
  • Gen 21:21 : 21 And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 And Izhak prayed vuto the Lorde for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued,
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 Then there was a man in Zorah of the familie of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was baren, and bare not.
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.
  • Luke 1:36 : 36 And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.
  • Gen 21:9-9 : 9 And Sarah sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian (which she had borne vnto Abraham) mocking. 10 Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.
  • Gen 21:12 : 12 But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.
  • Gen 11:30 : 30 But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.

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  • Gen 16:2-9
    8 verses
    90%

    2And Sarai said vnto Abram, Beholde now, the Lorde hath restrained me from childe bearing. I pray thee goe in vnto my maide: it may be that I shall receiue a childe by her; Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.

    3Then Sarai Abrams wife tooke Hagar her maide the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelled ten yeere in the land of Canaan, and gaue her to her husband Abram for his wife.

    4And he went in vnto Hagar, & she conceiued; when she sawe that she had conceiued, her dame was despised in her eyes.

    5Then Sarai saide to Abram, Thou doest me wrong. I haue giuen my maide into thy bosome, and she seeth that she hath conceiued, and I am despised in her eyes: the Lorde iudge betweene me and thee.

    6Then Abram saide to Sarai, Beholde, thy maide is in thine hand: doe with her as it pleaseth thee. Then Sarai dealt roughly with her: wherefore she fled from her.

    7But the Angel of the Lord founde her beside a fountaine of water in the wildernesse by the fountaine in the way to Shur,

    8And he saide, Hagar Sarais maide, whence commest thou? and whither wilt thou goe? And she said, I flie from my dame Sarai.

    9Then the Angel of the Lorde saide to her, Returne to thy dame, and humble thy selfe vnder her hands.

  • Gen 11:29-31
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    83%

    29So Abram and Nahor tooke them wiues. The name of Abrams wife was Sarai, & the name of Nahors wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

    30But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.

    31Then Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife: and they departed together from Vr of the Caldees, to goe into the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

  • Gen 16:15-16
    2 verses
    82%

    15And Hagar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

    16And Abram was foure score and sixe yeere olde, when Hagar bare him Ishmael.

  • 12Nowe these are the generations of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, whome Hagar the Egyptian Sarahs handmayde bare vnto Abraham.

  • 15Afterward God said vnto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shalbe her name.

  • 3Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.

  • Gen 12:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16Who intreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.

    17But the Lorde plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wife.

    18Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why hast thou done this vnto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?

  • 36And Sarah my masters wife hath borne a sonne to my master, when she was olde, and vnto him hath he giuen all that he hath.

  • Gen 21:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9And Sarah sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian (which she had borne vnto Abraham) mocking.

    10Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.

  • 2For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.

  • 11(Nowe Abraham and Sarah were old and striken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the maner of women)

  • 11Also the Angel of the Lord said vnto her, See, thou art with childe, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt call his name Ishmael: for the Lorde hath heard thy tribulation.

  • 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. Then Abimelech King of Gerar sent and tooke Sarah.

  • 11And when he drewe neere to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Beholde nowe, I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpo:

  • 14Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very faire.

  • 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.