Genesis 16:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 16:5

Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my slave to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”

Galatians 4:25

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

1 Kings 11:3

Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart.

2 Samuel 5:13

In Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 32:22

The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 30:9

When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30:4

So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Genesis 28:9

Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

Genesis 25:6

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still living, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

Genesis 16:4

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

Genesis 16:16

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

Genesis 21:21

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