Sarai and Hagar

16 ^(A)Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was ^(B)Hagar.

²⁴ Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two ^(A)covenants. ^(B)One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

¹⁶ And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

⁹ But Sarah ^(A)saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, ^(B)laughing.^{[a] 10} So she said to Abraham, ^(C)“Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”

² But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue^[a] childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” ³ And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and ^(A)a member of my household will be my heir.”

³⁶ And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her ^(A)who was called barren.

⁷ But they had no child, because ^(A)Elizabeth was barren, and ^(B)both were advanced in years.

² There was a certain man of ^(A)Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. ^(B)And his wife was barren and had no children.

²¹ And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And ^(A)the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.