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Genesis 16:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
Genesis 16:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath [a]restrained me from childbearing, I pray thee go in unto my maid: [b]it may be that I shall [c]receive a child by her. And Abram obeyed the voice of Sarai.
3 Then Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelled ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram for his wife.
4 ¶ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her dame was [d]despised in her eyes.
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- Genesis 16:2 She faileth in binding God’s power to the common order of nature, as though God could not give her children in her old age.
- Genesis 16:2 Or, peradventure.
- Genesis 16:2 Hebrew, be built by her.
- Genesis 16:4 This punishment declareth what they gain that attempt anything against the word of God.
Genesis 16:2-4
New International Version
Genesis 16:2-4
New International Version
2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.(A) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”(B)
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan(C) ten years,(D) Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar,(E) and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.(F)
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