Genesis 16:1-4 ▼

1 Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.

2 So Sarai told Abram, |You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her.| Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion,

3 so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.

4 He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.