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16 Sarai, Abram’s wife, was not able to have children. She owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don’t you sleep with my slave? Maybe I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed with Sarai.
16 Sarai was Abram’s wife, but she did not have any children. She had an Egyptian slave named Hagar. 2 Sarai told Abram, “The Lord has not allowed me to have children, so sleep with my slave. Maybe she can have a son, and I will accept him as my own.”
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Abraham had a principal wife, Sarah (Genesis 11:29), and two secondary wives, Hagar and Keturah (Genesis 16:3; 25:1). Abraham’s first wife was Sarah. She alone would possess legal rights and social standing as Abraham’s wife, and only her child Isaac would become the rightful heir to the family inheritance.
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Sarahs ancestry is not clear. Genesis 11 relates that Abram and his brother Nahor married Sarai and Milcah, respectively (v. 29). It does not name Sarahs father, even though it relates that Milcah was the daughter of Haran, Terahs other son, and then names Harans other daughter, Iscah. When Gen 11:31 tells that Terah took his son Abram and his gran...
Sarah and Abraham come to Israel as part of Gods promise of numerous progeny and the land (Gen 12:15). Because Sarahs importance to this promise is not at first obvious, the promise is immediately endangered. Forced by famine to leave the land, Abraham is fearful that Egyptians will kill him in order to take the beautiful Sarah. His concerns make s...
Although the wife-sister stories are difficult to understand, the fact that Sarah becomes a slave in Pharaohs house serves to foreshadow Israels later bondage in Egypt. She herself is not in danger of her lifebut the reader knows that nascent Israel is in danger of losing its ancestress. And so God acts to protect Sarah by afflicting Pharaoh and hi...
Abraham falls on his face, laughing (Gen 17:17) because of their age (he is one hundred years old, and she is ninety) just as Sarah laughs when she hears the second announcement of the birth (Gen 18:1115). God ignores Abrahams laughter, but reacts to Sarahs. After all, Sarah should understand how important she is, for God has already worked miracle...
Having secured Isaacs position in the family, Sarah disappears from Genesis. She plays no role in the near sacrifice of Isaac. She dies at the age of 127 in Hebron (Gen 23:12). Abraham buys his first real property in the land of Israel, the Cave of Machpelah, in order to bury her (Gen 23:19). She is mentioned three more times in the Book of Genesis...
By her union with Abraham, Sarah had one child, Isaac. [9] After her death, Abraham married Keturah, whose identity biblical scholars debate (that is, whether or not she was actually Hagar), and by her had at least six more children.
Mar 14, 2024 · Sarah was the wife of Abraham. Hagar was the servant of Sarah. God had promised Abraham many descendants, but, ten years after the promise, Sarah was still unable to have children, and they were both on the verge of becoming too old to have children at all.
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In addition, his wife Sarai's name was changed to Sarah, for she would be a mother of nations. Three visitors came to Abraham and said that he would have a son. Sarah believed she was too old to have a child and laughed.
