Genesis 16:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years.

Cross References

Genesis 16:5

Then Sarai said to Abram, “It's all your fault! I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant. You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the Lord for this.”

Galatians 4:25

Hagar also stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and for the present city of Jerusalem. She and her children are slaves.

1 Kings 11:3

Seven hundred of his wives were daughters of kings, but he also married 300 other women. As Solomon got older, some of his wives led him to worship their gods. He wasn't like his father David, who had worshiped only the Lord God.

2 Samuel 5:13

After David left Hebron and moved to Jerusalem, he married many women from Jerusalem, and he had a lot of children.

Genesis 35:22

During their time there, Jacob's oldest son Reuben slept with Bilhah, who was one of Jacob's other wives. And Jacob found out about it.

Genesis 32:22

Jacob got up in the middle of the night and took his wives, his eleven children, and everything he owned across to the other side of the Jabbok River for safety.

Genesis 30:9

When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah,

Genesis 30:4

Then Rachel let Jacob marry Bilhah,

Genesis 28:9

So he married Ishmael's daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.

Genesis 16:4

Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and treated Sarai hatefully.