Genesis 16:3
“And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 16Meaning
After ten years in Canaan, Sarai gives Hagar to Abram as a wife within the household plan to obtain an heir.
Read carefully
The legal or social status described belongs to the ancient setting and should not be collapsed into modern assumptions about marriage or consent.
Reflection
Long waiting can make self-directed solutions feel necessary, yet urgency does not erase the moral complexity of unequal relationships.