OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 16:2

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Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Verse 2. May have. Hebrew “may be built up,” a metaphorical expression: so God is said to have built up houses for the Egyptian midwives. Exodus 1:21. Menochius.

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