Genesis 16:2 meaning and explanation
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:2, Berean Standard Bible
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Sarai speaks after ten years in Canaan without a child, and she reads her barrenness as the LORD's doing. In the ancient world a wife could give her servant to her husband so that a child born to the servant would count as the family's heir.
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