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Genesis 16:3-10 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

3. she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife.

4. And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.

5. And Sarai said to Abram: "You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you."

6. Abram responded to her by saying, "Behold, your handmaid is in your hand to treat as it pleases you." And so, when Sarai afflicted her, she took flight.

7. And when the Angel of the Lord had found her, near the fountain of water in the wilderness, which is on the way to Shur in the desert,

8. he said to her: "Hagar, handmaid of Sarai, where have you come from? And where will you go?" And she answered, "I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress."

9. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand."

10. And again he said, "I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude."

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