Everyday words
Hagar
Start with Genesis 16:1, where the Bible uses the word hagar in a real sentence: “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 16:1
“Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.”
2. Genesis 16:3
“Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.”
3. Genesis 16:4
“He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.”
4. Genesis 16:8
“He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.””
5. Genesis 16:15
“Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.”
6. Genesis 16:16
“Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.”
7. Genesis 21:9
“Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.”
8. Genesis 21:14
“Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.”
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Practice Genesis 16:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowSarai,Abram’swife,borehimnochildren.ShehadaanEgyptian,namewas