^{2 Ref} And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

^{3 Ref} So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

^{4 Ref} And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.