Genesis 16:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ And he went in to Haḡar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And he had intercourse with Hagar, and she became pregnant; and when she saw that she was with child, she looked with contempt upon her mistress and despised her.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Common English Bible

⁴ He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when she realized that she was pregnant, she no longer respected her mistress.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And he went in to her. But she, perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.

Genesis 16:4 Cross References

Genesis 16:3

And Sarai, Aḇram’s wife, took Haḡar her female servant, the Mitsrian, and gave her to her husband Aḇram to be his wife, after Aḇram had dwelt ten years in the land of Kena‛an.

Genesis 16:5

And Sarai said to Aḇram, “My wrong be upon you! I gave my female servant into your bosom. And when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Let יהוה judge between you and me.”

Genesis 19:31

And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.

Genesis 21:9

And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrian, whom she had borne to Aḇraham, mocking.

Genesis 30:4

So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Ya‛aqoḇ went in to her.

2 Samuel 6:16

And it came to be, when the ark of יהוה came into the City of Dawiḏ, that Miḵal, daughter of Sha’ul, looked through a window and saw Sovereign Dawiḏ leaping and dancing before יהוה, and she despised him in her heart.

Proverbs 30:23

Under a hated woman who marries, And a female servant who supplants her mistress.

1 Corinthians 4:6

And these matters, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you might learn not to think beyond what is written, so that none of you be puffed up on behalf of one against the other.