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Genesis 16:3

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Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

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The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.
The Journeys of Abraham and the PatriarchsThe journeys of Abraham and the patriarchs from Ur through Canaan and into Egypt.

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Canaan was the land where Abram and Sarai lived under God’s promise, and Sarai gave Hagar to Abram there after ten years of waiting for a child. Kadesh-barnea and Shur are not named in this

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Genesis 16:3 mentions Canaan, Kadesh-barnea and Shur.

Canaan · Bahnfrend
Kadesh-barnea · Matson Collection

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