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

And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

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God Pays Attention

People With Apt Names

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said. So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife. And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.