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Genesis 16:5

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Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

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Genesis 16:5 in other translations

And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee.

Genesis 16:5 · American Standard Version

Genesis 16:5 in context

  1. 3Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
  2. 4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
  3. 5Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
  4. 6But 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.
  5. 7Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.