Genesis 16:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

ten. These 10 years to be taken into account in any calculations.

wife. This was strictly in accordance with the enactment of Khammurahi (146) which Abram had brought from Ur. See App-15.

Genesis 16:3

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.