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1 Sarai, Abram's wife, was not able to have children. She owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, |The LORD has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Maybe I can build a family through her.| Abram agreed with Sarai. 3 After Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to be disrespectful to Sarai, her owner. 5 So Sarai complained to Abram, |I'm being treated unfairly! And it's your fault! I know that I gave my slave to you, but now that she's pregnant, she's being disrespectful to me. May the LORD decide who is right-you or me.| 6 Abram answered Sarai, |Here, she's your slave. Do what you like with her.| Then Sarai mistreated Hagar so much that she ran away. 7 The Messenger of the LORD found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the way to Shur. Genesis 16:1-7, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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