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Genesis 16:3

The Passion Translation

Abram had already lived ten years in the land of Canaan when his wife Sarai took her Egyptian slave girl Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his second wife.

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So Sarai went to Abram and said, “It’s totally your fault that Hagar despises me—and you’re not standing up for me! I gave my slave girl to your embrace, and when she found out she was pregnant, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between us who is in the right!”

For “Hagar” represents the law given at Mount Sinai in Arabia. The “Hagar” metaphor corresponds to the earthly Jerusalem of today who are currently in bondage.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel found out. Jacob had twelve sons.

During the night, Jacob arose, woke up his two wives, his two maidservants, and eleven sons, and had them cross the ford of the Jabbok River.

Meanwhile, when Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as another wife.

So Rachel gave her servant Bilhah to Jacob as another wife, and Jacob slept with her.

went to Ishmael’s clan and chose a woman named Mahalath to be one of his wives. She was the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, and sister of Nebaioth.

but to his sons by his concubines he gave gifts while he was still living. He sent them all away eastward, separating them from his son Isaac.

He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she belittled Sarai and despised her.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

and his mother, Hagar, arranged a marriage for him with an Egyptian woman.




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