And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath [a]restrained me from childbearing, I pray thee go in unto my maid: [b]it may be that I shall [c]receive a child by her. And Abram obeyed the voice of Sarai.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:2 She faileth in binding God’s power to the common order of nature, as though God could not give her children in her old age.
  2. Genesis 16:2 Or, peradventure.
  3. Genesis 16:2 Hebrew, be built by her.

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