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so Abram’s wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place[a] ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan. He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

Then Sarai told Abram, “My suffering is your fault! I gave you my servant so you could have sex with her,[b] and when she discovered that she was pregnant, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”

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  1. Genesis 16:3 The Heb. lacks This took place
  2. Genesis 16:5 Lit. my servant your bosom