1. Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,
2. and so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me.” Abram agreed with what Sarai said.
3. So she gave Hagar to him to be his concubine. (This happened after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years.)