In Context

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

2 Sarai said to Abram, |See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.| Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

5 Sarai said to Abram, |This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.|

6 But Abram said to Sarai, |Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.| Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

Genesis 16:4 in Other Translations