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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
A Conservative Version
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, 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.
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 Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 Wherefore she said unto Abram, "Behold the LORD hath closed me, that I can not bear. I pray thee go in unto my maid, peradventure I shall be multiplied by means of her." And Abram heard the voice of Sarai.
Cross References
Galatians 4:24
Which things betoken mystery. For these women are two testaments, the one from the mount Sinai, which gendreth unto bondage, which is Hagar.
Genesis 12:16
which entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he-asses, men servants, maid servants, she-asses and camels.
Genesis 15:2-3
And Abram answered, "LORD Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? I go childless, and the cater of mine house, this Eliezer of Damascus, hath a son."
Genesis 11:30
But Sarai was barren and had no child.
Genesis 21:9-10
Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking.
Genesis 21:12
Then the LORD said unto Abraham, "Let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother got him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 25:21
And Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Judges 13:2
And there was a man in Zorah of the kindred of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was barren and bare not.
Luke 1:7
And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren; And both were well stricken in age.
Luke 1:36
And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age. And this is her sixth month, though she be called barren,