1. Abram's wife Sarai had never had any children by him. But she had a female servant from Egypt named Hagar.
2. So she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Go and make love to my servant. Maybe I can have a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai had said.
3. After he had been living in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai gave him her servant Hagar to be his wife.