Genesis 16:8

World English Bible (2000)

He 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."

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  • Gen 3:9 : 9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
  • Gen 4:10 : 10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
  • Eccl 10:4 : 4 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
  • Jer 2:17-18 : 17 "Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way? 18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
  • Eph 6:5-8 : 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
  • 1 Tim 6:1-2 : 1 Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. 2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
  • Gen 16:4 : 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
  • 1 Sam 26:19 : 19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 16:1-7
    7 verses
    84%

    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2 Sarai 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.

    3 Sarai, 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.

    4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

    5 Sarai 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."

    6 But 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.

    7 The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

  • Gen 16:9-11
    3 verses
    84%

    9 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

    10 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

    11 The 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.

  • Gen 21:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

    14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

    15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

    16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

    17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

  • Gen 21:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    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 16:13-16
    4 verses
    72%

    13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"

    14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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

  • Gen 24:5
    71%

    5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

  • Gen 12:1
    70%

    1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

  • Gen 12:18
    70%

    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

  • Gen 20:13
    70%

    13 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

  • Gen 25:12
    70%

    12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

  • Gen 24:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

    8 If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

  • Gen 17:15
    69%

    15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

  • Gen 18:9
    69%

    9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

  • Gen 39:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

    18 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."

  • Gen 24:28
    69%

    28 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.

  • Gal 4:25
    69%

    25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.