Genesis 16:2
New King James Version
2 (A)So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord (B)has restrained me from bearing children. Please, (C)go in to my maid; perhaps I shall [a]obtain children by her.” And Abram (D)heeded the voice of Sarai.
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- Genesis 16:2 Lit. be built up from
Genesis 16:2
New International Version
2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.(A) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”(B)
Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Genesis 16:3
New King James Version
3 Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram (A)had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 16:3
New International Version
3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan(A) ten years,(B) Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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