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


In Context

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

2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee go in to my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named 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 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.