Genesis 16
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:24 am
Genesis 16
And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing; please come to my handmaid; perhaps I will be built up from her." And Abram hearkened to Sarai's voice.
So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of ten years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to Abram her husband for a wife.
And he came to Hagar, and she conceived, and she saw that she was pregnant, and her mistress became unimportant in her eyes.
What does "for a wife" mean?
I always thought it is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.
Jacob also had children by his wives maidservants.
God never calls Hagar Abraham's wife.
The text does not say Abraham married Hagar.
Why wouldn't this union with Hagar be considered adultery?
Thanks.
And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing; please come to my handmaid; perhaps I will be built up from her." And Abram hearkened to Sarai's voice.
So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of ten years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to Abram her husband for a wife.
And he came to Hagar, and she conceived, and she saw that she was pregnant, and her mistress became unimportant in her eyes.
What does "for a wife" mean?
I always thought it is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.
Jacob also had children by his wives maidservants.
God never calls Hagar Abraham's wife.
The text does not say Abraham married Hagar.
Why wouldn't this union with Hagar be considered adultery?
Thanks.