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And Sarai said to Abram, “Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps I will have children by her.”[a] And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. Then[b] Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she[c] saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:2 Literally “I will be built from her”
  2. Genesis 16:3 Or “And”
  3. Genesis 16:4 That is, Hagar