Servant: Bond: Taken in Concubinage

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  1. Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
  2. 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.
  3. “Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
  4. Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
  5. When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.