Genesis 16:2

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Genesis 16:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

3 So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

4 And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

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Genesis 30:2

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Genesis 30:3

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The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3:3

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Genesis 3:4

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Genesis 3:6

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