Genesis 16:3 - Catholic Public Domain Version

³ she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Common English Bible

³ After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ She took Agar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and gave her to her husband to wife.

English Standard Version 2016

³ So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

Genesis 16:3 Cross References

Genesis 16:16

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for him.

Genesis 16:4

And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.

Genesis 16:5

And Sarai said to Abram: "You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you."

Genesis 21:21

And he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 25:6

But to the sons of the concubines he gave generous gifts, and he separated them from his son Isaac, while he still lived, toward the eastern region.

Genesis 28:9

he went to Ishmael, and he took as a wife, beside those he had before, Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.

Genesis 30:4

And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.

Genesis 30:9

Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.

Genesis 32:22

And when he had arisen early, he took his two wives, and the same number of handmaids, with his eleven sons, and he crossed over the ford of Jabbok.

Genesis 35:22

And when he was living in that region, Reuben went out, and he slept with Bilhah the concubine of his father, which was not such a small matter as to be hidden from him. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

2 Samuel 5:13

Then David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he had arrived from Hebron. And other sons as well as daughters were born to David.

1 Kings 11:3

And for him, there were seven hundred wives, as if they were queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned aside his heart.

Galatians 4:25

For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.