Thematic Bible: Born of a bigamous marriage, with a foreigner

And Hagar bore Abram a son. And Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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God Pays Attention

People With Apt Names

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. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.