Genesis 16:3

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After Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Abram’s wife Sarai took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Cross References

Genesis 16:16

Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

Genesis 16:4

He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to be disrespectful to Sarai, her owner.

Genesis 16:5

So Sarai complained to Abram, “I’m being treated unfairly! And it’s your fault! I know that I gave my slave to you, but now that she’s pregnant, she’s being disrespectful to me. May the Lord decide who is right—you or me.”

Genesis 21:21

He lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother got him a wife from Egypt.

Genesis 25:6

But while he was still living, Abraham had given gifts to the sons of his concubines. He sent them away from his son Isaac to a land in the east.

Genesis 28:9

So he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth, in addition to the wives he had.

Genesis 30:4

So she gave him her slave Bilhah as his wife, and Jacob slept with her.

Genesis 30:9

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

Genesis 32:22

During that night he got up and gathered his two wives, his two slaves and his eleven children and crossed at the shallow part of the Jabbok River.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father’s concubine  Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had 12 sons.

2 Samuel 5:13

David married more concubines  and wives from Jerusalem after he had come there from Hebron, and he fathered more sons and daughters.

1 Kings 11:3

He had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 wives who were concubines.

Galatians 4:25

Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is like Jerusalem today because she and her children are slaves.