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A Conservative Version
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
New American Standard Bible
Now
King James Version
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Holman Bible
Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
International Standard Version
Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.
American Standard Version
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Amplified
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
Bible in Basic English
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
Darby Translation
And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.
Julia Smith Translation
And Sarai, Abram's wife, brought not forth to him; and to her a maid servant, an Egyptian, and her name Hagar.
King James 2000
Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name [was] Hagar.
Modern King James verseion
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear. And she had a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
NET Bible
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
New Heart English Bible
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
The Emphasized Bible
But Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, - she had, however, an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar.
Webster
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
World English Bible
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name is Hagar;
Themes
Sarah » Also called sarai » Is sterile; gives her handmaiden, hagar, to abraham as a concubine
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Context Readings
Sarai And Hagar
1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, LORD has restrained me from bearing. Go in, I pray thee, to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain sons by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Cross References
Galatians 4:24
Which things are allegorized, for these are two covenants, indeed one from mount Sinai giving birth for bondage, which is Hagar.
Genesis 12:16
And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 15:2-3
And Abram said, O lord LORD, what will thou give me, since I go childless. And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis 11:30
And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 21:9-10
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
Genesis 21:12
And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah says to thee, hearken to her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took for him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 25:21
And Isaac entreated LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Judges 13:2
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and did not bear.
Luke 1:7
And there was no child to them because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in their days.
Luke 1:36
And behold, Elizabeth thy kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.