1. Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar,
2. she said to her husband: "Behold, the Lord has closed me, lest I give birth. Enter to my handmaid, so that perhaps I may receive sons of her at least." And when he agreed to her supplication,
3. she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife.
4. And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.