1 And Sarai, Abrams wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar;
2 and Sarai saith unto Abram, Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her; and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai, Abrams wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abrams dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,