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Genesis 16:2-7 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

2. And Sarai said to Abram, “Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps I will have children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

3. Then Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.

4. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.

5. And Sarai said to Abram, “may my harm be upon you. I had my servant sleep with you, and when she saw that she had conceived, she no longer respected me. May Yahweh judge between me and you!”

6. And Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your servant is under your authority. Do to her that which is good in your eyes.” And Sarai mistreated her, and she fled from her presence.

7. And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur.

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