Genesis 16:1 - Revised Version 1885

¹ Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW SARAI, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Common English Bible

¹ Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to have children. Since she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children; but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

Genesis 16:1 Cross References

Genesis 11:30

And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 12:16

And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she-asses, and camels.

Genesis 15:21

and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

Genesis 21:12

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

Genesis 21:21

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 25:21

And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Luke 1:36

And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren.

Luke 1:7

And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

Galatians 4:24

Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

Judges 13:2

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

1 Samuel 1:5

but unto Hannah he gave a double portion: for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.