1. Sarai was Abram’s wife, but she did not have any children. She had an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
2. Sarai told Abram, “The Lord has not allowed me to have children, so sleep with my slave. Maybe she can have a son, and I will accept him as my own.” Abram did what Sarai said.
3. So after living ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai gave her Egyptian slave to Abram as a second wife.