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To: CondoleezzaProtege
She became Abraham’s second wife

Hagar was a surrogate mother, not a wife. The technology wasn't at today's level.

2 posted on 08/07/2025 8:43:33 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

She was essentially a concubine but the Bible refers to her as a wife in keeping with the standards of the time, and translation…

“Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.” (Genesis 16:3)


4 posted on 08/07/2025 8:46:55 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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