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

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

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God Pays Attention

People With Apt Names

Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.