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1Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:1

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-3)

I. The maker of this match (would one think it?) was Sarai herself: she said to Abram, I pray thee, go in unto my maid , Gen. 16:2. Note, 1. It is the policy of Satan to tempt us by our nearest and dearest relations, or those friends that we have an opinion of and an affection for. The temptation is most dangerous when it is sent by a hand that is least suspected: it is our wisdom therefore to con...

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