Genesis 16:3

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Summary

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Had

Genesis 12:4

Gave

Genesis 16:5

Genesis 30:4

His

Bible References

Had

So Abram left, just as Jehovah told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.

Gave

Then Sarai said to Abram: You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May Jehovah judge between you and me.

Then Rachel let Jacob marry Bilhah. Jacob slept with Bilhah.

His

While Abraham was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of Hagar and Keturah. He also sent their sons to live in the east far from his son Isaac.

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

That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok River.

While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father's concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

There was still no king in Israel. There was a Levite who lived in the remote area of Mount Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

David left Hebron and moved to Jerusalem. He married many women from Jerusalem, and he had a lot of children.

He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives. His wives influenced his heart to turn away.

Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She corresponds to the Jerusalem that now is. She is in bondage with her children.