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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
GENESIS
CHAPTER 16
  1 Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an aEgyptian, whose name was bHagar.

Footnotes
1a
Gen. 21: 21.
  21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a awife out of the land of bEgypt.
Abr. 1: 22 (21-22).
  22 From this descent sprang all the Egyptians, and thus the blood of the aCanaanites was preserved in the land.
Abr. 2: 21.
  21 And I, Abraham, journeyed, going on still towards the south; and there was a continuation of a famine in the land; and I, Abraham, concluded to go down into Egypt, to sojourn there, for the famine became very grievous.
b
Gen. 21: 9.
  9 ¶ And Sarah saw the son of aHagar the Egyptian, which she had bborn unto Abraham, cmocking.
Gal. 4: 24.
  24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to abondage, which is bAgar.
D&C 132: 34 (34, 65).
  34 God acommanded Abraham, and Sarah gave bHagar to Abraham to wife. And why did she do it? Because this was the law; and from Hagar sprang many people. This, therefore, was fulfilling, among other things, the promises.
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