Genesis 16:1-3

Sarai and Hagar

¹ _a Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was _b Hagar. ² 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 ₁ by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. ³ So, after Abram _c 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.

1. Cross References
   Genesis 15:2 - 3
   But Abram said, "O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 21:9
   But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.
   Galatians 4:24
   Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 12:5
   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.