Genesis 16:1 meaning and explanation
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
Genesis 16:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator opens by naming the problem that drives the whole chapter: Sarai, Abram's wife, has borne him no children. This is set against God's earlier promise of countless descendants, so the verse quietly records a gap between promise and experience.
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