Genesis 16:4
Genesis chapter 16 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Context
v.3And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
v.4This passage
v.5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
- 1 Samuel 1:6
And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
- 2 Samuel 6:16
And it was so, as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.
- Proverbs 30:23
For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
- Proverbs 30:20
So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
- 1 Corinthians 4:6
Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.