22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, (A)one by a slave woman and (B)one by a free woman.

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15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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10 So she said to Abraham, (A)“Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”

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The Birth of Isaac

21 The Lord (A)visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah (B)as he had promised. And Sarah (C)conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age (D)at the time of which God had spoken to him.

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And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children[a] by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 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. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, (B)she looked with contempt on her mistress.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:2 Hebrew be built up, which sounds like the Hebrew for children
  2. Genesis 16:4 Hebrew her mistress was dishonorable in her eyes; similarly in verse 5

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