2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has ^vprevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children^{1 w}by her.” And Abram ^xlistened to the voice of Sarai. 3 So, after ^yAbram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and ^zgave her to Abram her husband as a wife.