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Genesis 16:4
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He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
Genesis 16:4 in Other Translations
KJV
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And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
ESV
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And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
NLT
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So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt.
MSG
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He slept with Hagar and she got pregnant. When she learned she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.
CSB
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He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.
Genesis 16:4 Meaning and Commentary
Genesis 16:4
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived
The formality of the marriage being over, he enjoyed her as his wife, and she immediately conceived by him:
and when she saw that she had conceived;
when she perceived that she was with child:
her mistress was despised in her eyes;
she thought herself above her, and treated her as her inferior, with contempt, and reproached her for her barrenness, as Peninnah did Hannah, ( 1 Samuel 1:6 1 Samuel 1:7 ) ; and it was the more ungrateful, as it was at the motion of her mistress that she was given to Abram for wife.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Genesis 16:4 In-Context
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so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
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“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
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