Genesis 16:1-3

International Children’s Bible

Hagar and Ishmael

16 Sarai, Abram’s wife, had no children. She had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar. ² Sarai said to Abram, “Look, the Lord has not allowed me to have children. So have physical relations with my slave girl. If she has a child, maybe I can have my own family through her.”

Abram did what Sarai said. ³ This was after Abram lived ten years in Canaan. And Sarai gave Hagar to her husband Abram. (Hagar was her slave girl from Egypt.)