So, after Abram (A)had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

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And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May (A)the Lord judge between you and me!”

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So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from (A)Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

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25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;[a] she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:25 Some manuscripts For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia

He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.

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13 And David took more (A)concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

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A Levite and His Concubine

19 In those days, (A)when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of (B)the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from (C)Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to[a] him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there.

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  1. Judges 19:2 Septuagint, Old Latin became angry with

22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and (A)lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

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Jacob Wrestles with God

22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children,[a] and crossed the ford of the (A)Jabbok.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:22 Or sons

When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and (A)gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, (A)Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of (B)Nebaioth.

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But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he (A)sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward (B)to the east country.

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