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Hagar

12 verses · 2 family members

Also known as: Agar

Verses Mentioning Hagar

  1. Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

  2. She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.

  3. And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.

  4. He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

  5. And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael.

  6. Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael.

  7. And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:

  8. So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

  9. And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.

  10. These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:

  11. Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar.

  12. For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.