1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;


In Context

1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;

2 so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

Genesis 16:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children; having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:1And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:1And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name is Hagar;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.