Genesis 16:3-7 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

3. and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years.

4. Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and was hateful to Sarai.

5. Then Sarai said to Abram, “It's all your fault! I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant. You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the Lord for this.”

6. Abram said, “All right! She's your slave, and you can do whatever you want with her.” But Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.

7. Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur. While she was there, the angel of the Lord came to her

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