1. Now Sarai Avram's isha bore him no children; and she had a shifchah, an Egyptian, whose shem was Hagar.
2. And Sarai said unto Avram, Hinei now, Hashem hath restrained me from bearing; go now in unto my shifchah; it may be that I may build family by her. And Avram paid heed to the voice of Sarai.