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Hagar [05-01]

Ten years after Abram and Sarai arrived in Canaan, they still did not have a child. So Abram's wife, Sarai, said to him, “Since God has not allowed me to have children and now I am too old to have children, here is my servant, Hagar. Marry her also so she can have a child for me.”

亚伯兰和撒萊等了二十多年，仍没有孩子。神对亚伯兰发言，再次允诺他将有一个儿子及如天上星辰般多的后裔。亚伯兰相信神的话。

Important Terms:

• Abraham
• Sarah
• Canaan
• God
• servant
• Hagar

Translation Notes:

• still did not have a child - Without a child, Abram had no descendants to become a great nation.
• Marry her also - Abram would take Hagar as a second wife, but Hagar would not have the full status of a wife as Sarai did. She was still Sarai's servant.
• have a child for me - Since Hagar was Sarai's servant, Sarai would be considered the mother of any children that Hagar bore.