When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the LORD had told him to do; and Lot went with him.

Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

Then Sarai said to Abram, "It's your fault that Hagar despises me. I myself gave her to you, and ever since she found out that she was pregnant, she has despised me. May the LORD judge which of us is right, you or me!"

So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.

When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.

but while he was still alive, he gave presents to the sons his other wives had borne him. Then he sent these sons to the land of the East, away from his son Isaac.

So he went to Ishmael son of Abraham and married his daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.

That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the Jabbok River.

While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.

In those days before Israel had a king, there was a Levite living far back in the hill country of Ephraim. He took a young woman from Bethlehem in Judah to be his concubine.

Then the man decided to go after her and try to persuade her to return to him. He took his servant and two donkeys with him. The woman showed the Levite into the house, and when her father saw him, he gave him a hearty greeting.

After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem, David took more concubines and wives, and had more sons and daughters.

Solomon married seven hundred princesses and also had three hundred concubines. They made him turn away from God,

Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people.