Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
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- Gal 4:24 : 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
- Gen 12:16 : 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
- Gen 15:2-3 : 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
- Gen 21:21 : 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Judg 13:2 : 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
- Luke 1:7 : 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
- Luke 1:36 : 36 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
- Gen 21:9-9 : 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
- Gen 21:12 : 12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
- Gen 11:30 : 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.
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- Gen 16:2-98 verses90%
2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
5Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
7The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
9The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
- Gen 11:29-313 verses83%
29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
30Sarai was barren. She had no child.
31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
- Gen 16:15-162 verses82%
15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
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12Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.
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15God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
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3Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
- Gen 12:16-183 verses74%
16He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
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36Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
- Gen 21:9-102 verses74%
9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
10Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
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2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
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11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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11The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
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2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
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11It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
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14It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.