The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: and the Jebusites.
GEN 16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
GEN 16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath
restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be
that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of
Sarai.
GEN 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her
husband Abram to be his wife.
GEN 16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
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