Genesis 16:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

Genesis 16:5

Then Sarai said to Abram, ‘You are responsible for my suffering!  I put my slave in your arms,  and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the Lord judge between me and you.’

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia  and corresponds to the present Jerusalem,  for she is in slavery with her children.

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred who were concubines,  and they turned his heart away.

2 Samuel 5:13

After he arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Genesis 32:22

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.

Genesis 30:9

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30:4

So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

Genesis 28:9

so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.

Genesis 25:6

But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastwards, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

Genesis 16:4

He slept with  Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she saw that she was pregnant, her mistress became contemptible to her.

Genesis 16:16

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Genesis 21:21

He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.