1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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Galatians 4:24, Galatians 4:24, Genesis 12:16, Genesis 12:16, Genesis 21:9

2Sarai 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.

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Genesis 3:17, Genesis 18:10, Exodus 21:4, Genesis 3:17, Genesis 18:10

3Sarai, 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.

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Genesis 12:4, Genesis 12:5, Genesis 16:5, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 12:5

4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

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Proverbs 30:23, Proverbs 30:23, 2 Samuel 6:16, 1 Corinthians 13:4, 1 Corinthians 13:5

5Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The Lord judge between me and you."

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Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:53, Exodus 5:21, Exodus 5:21, 2 Chronicles 24:22

6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

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Jeremiah 38:5, Jeremiah 38:5, Proverbs 29:19, Job 2:6, Psalms 106:41

7The angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

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Genesis 25:18, Exodus 15:22, Genesis 21:17, Genesis 25:18, Exodus 15:22

8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

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Genesis 3:9, Genesis 3:9, Genesis 4:10, Genesis 4:10, Ecclesiastes 10:4

9The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

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1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6, Ecclesiastes 10:4

10The angel of the Lord said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

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Genesis 17:20, Genesis 17:20, Psalms 83:6, Psalms 83:7, Psalms 83:6

11The angel of the Lord said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.

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Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24, Exodus 3:7

12He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."

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Genesis 25:18, Genesis 21:20, Genesis 25:18, Genesis 21:20, Job 39:5

13She called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"

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Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:12, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:12, Genesis 32:30

14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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Genesis 25:11, Numbers 13:26, Genesis 24:62, Genesis 25:11, Numbers 13:26

15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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Genesis 25:12, Genesis 25:12, Genesis 16:11, Genesis 28:9, Genesis 21:9

16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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