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

Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Verse ConceptsGod Pays AttentionPeople With Apt Names

She said to Abram: Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said. After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife. Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.