with great plagues. Pharaoh then realized that Sarai was Abram's wife and demanded that they leave Egypt immediately.

Genesis 16:1 records that Sarai had "an Egyptian servant", Hagar, whom Sarai may have brought with her from this time.

Hagar and Ishmael

After having lived in Canaan for ten years and still childless, Sarai suggested that Abram have a child with her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, to which he agreed. Hagar's pregnancy resulted in tension between

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