Genesis 16:3

New International Reader's Version

His wife Sarai gave him her slave Hagar to be his wife. That was after he had been living in Canaan for ten years.

Cross References

Genesis 16:16

Abram was 86 years old when Hagar had Ishmael by him.

Genesis 16:4

Then he slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to look down on the woman who owned her.

Genesis 16:5

Then Sarai said to Abram, “It’s your fault that I’m suffering like this. I put my slave in your arms. Now that she knows she’s pregnant, she looks down on me. May the Lord judge between you and me. May he decide which of us is right.”

Genesis 21:21

While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

Genesis 25:6

But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines. Then he sent them away from his son Isaac. He sent them to the land of the east.

Genesis 28:9

So he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael. Esau added her to the wives he already had.

Genesis 30:4

So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her.

Genesis 30:9

Leah saw that she had stopped having children. So she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 32:22

That night Jacob got up. He took his two wives, his two female servants and his 11 sons and sent them across the Jabbok River.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that area, Reuben went in and slept with Bilhah. She was the concubine of Reuben’s father. And Israel heard about it. Here are the 12 sons Jacob had.

2 Samuel 5:13

After David left Hebron, he got more concubines and wives in Jerusalem. More sons and daughters were born to him there.

1 Kings 11:3

He had 700 wives who came from royal families. And he had 300 concubines. His wives led him astray.

Galatians 4:25

Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia. She stands for the present city of Jerusalem. That’s because she and her children are slaves.