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Genesis Chapter 16

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Genesis 16

1Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.
Galatians 4:24, Galatians 4:24, Genesis 12:16, Genesis 12:16, Genesis 21:9
2And Sarai said vnto Abram, Beholde now, the Lord hath restrained me from childe bearing. I pray thee goe in vnto my maide: it may be that I shall receiue a childe by her. And Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.
Genesis 3:17, Genesis 18:10, Exodus 21:4, Genesis 3:17, Genesis 18:10
3Then Sarai Abrams wife tooke Hagar her maide the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelled ten yeere in the land of Canaan, and gaue her to her husband Abram for his wife.
Genesis 12:4, Genesis 12:5, Genesis 16:5, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 12:5
4And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceiued. and when she sawe that she had conceiued, her dame was despised in her eyes.
Proverbs 30:23, Proverbs 30:23, 2 Samuel 6:16, 1 Corinthians 13:4, 1 Corinthians 13:5
5Then Sarai saide to Abram, Thou doest me wrong. I haue giuen my maide into thy bosome, and she seeth that she hath conceiued, and I am despised in her eyes: the Lord iudge betweene me and thee.
Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:53, Exodus 5:21, Exodus 5:21, 2 Chronicles 24:22
6Then Abram saide to Sarai, Beholde, thy maide is in thine hand: doe with her as it pleaseth thee. Then Sarai dealt roughly with her: wherefore she fled from her.
Jeremiah 38:5, Jeremiah 38:5, Proverbs 29:19, Job 2:6, Psalms 106:41
7But the Angel of the Lord founde her beside a fountaine of water in the wildernesse by the fountaine in the way to Shur,
Genesis 25:18, Exodus 15:22, Genesis 21:17, Genesis 25:18, Exodus 15:22
8And he saide, Hagar Sarais maide, whence commest thou? and whither wilt thou goe? And she said, I flie from my dame Sarai.
Genesis 3:9, Genesis 3:9, Genesis 4:10, Genesis 4:10, Ecclesiastes 10:4
9Then the Angel of the Lord saide to her, Returne to thy dame, and humble thy selfe vnder her hands.
1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6, Ecclesiastes 10:4
10Againe the Angel of the Lord saide vnto her, I will so greatly increase thy seede, that it shall not be numbred for multitude.
Genesis 17:20, Genesis 17:20, Psalms 83:6, Psalms 83:7, Psalms 83:6
11Also the Angel of the Lord said vnto her, See, thou art with childe, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt call his name Ishmael: for the Lord hath heard thy tribulation.
Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24, Exodus 3:7
12And he shalbe a wilde man: his hande shall be against euery man, and euery mans hand against him. and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis 25:18, Genesis 21:20, Genesis 25:18, Genesis 21:20, Job 39:5
13Then she called the name of the Lord, that spake vnto her, Thou God lookest on me: for she said, Haue I not also here looked after him that seeth me?
Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:12, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:12, Genesis 32:30
14Wherefore the well was called, Beerlahai-roi. lo, it is betweene Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 25:11, Numbers 13:26, Genesis 24:62, Genesis 25:11, Numbers 13:26
15And Hagar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Genesis 25:12, Genesis 25:12, Genesis 16:11, Genesis 28:9, Genesis 21:9
16And Abram was foure score and sixe yeere olde, when Hagar bare him Ishmael.

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