Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
What does Genesis 16:1 mean?
Sarai, no longer expecting to have children herself, proposed to Abram to take another wife, whose children she might; her slave, whose children would be her property. This was done without asking counsel of the Lord.
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Keep this verse inside Genesis 16:1-3 and alongside a few nearby related passages.
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