Genesis 16:1 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children: but she had an handmayde an Egipcian, whose name was Agar,

³⁰ But Sarai was baren, and had no childe.

¹⁶ and Abram was well intreated for hir sake: and he had shepe, oxe, and he Asses, seruauntes, maydes, she Asses and Camels.

² But Abram sayde: LORDE LORDE, what wilt thou geue me? I go childles, and the seruaunt of my house (this Eleasar of Damascos) hath a sonne. ³ And Abram sayde morouer: Beholde, vnto me hast thou geuen no sede: and lo, the sonne of my housholde shal be myne heyre.

⁹ And Sara sawe the sonne of Agar the Egipcian (whom she had borne vnto Abraham) that he was a mocker, ¹⁰ and sayde vnto Abraham: Cast out this bonde mayden and hir sonne, for this bonde maydes sonne shall not be heyre wt my sonne Isaac.

¹² Neuertheles God sayde vnto him: let it not displease the because of the childe and the hand mayde: What so euer Sara hath sayde vnto the, folowe it, for in Isaac shall the sede be called vnto the.

²¹ and dwelt in ye wildernes of Pharan, and his mother toke him a wyfe out of the londe of Egipte.

²¹ Isaac besought the LORDE for his wyfe (because she was baren) and the LORDE was intreated, and Rebecca his wyfe conceaued.

² But there was a man at Zarga, of one of ye kynreds of the Danites, named Manoah, and his wife was vnfrutefull & bare him no children.

⁷ And they had no childe, for Elizabeth was baren, and they were both well stricken in age.

³⁶ And beholde, thy cosen Elizabeth she also hath coceaued a sonne in hir olde age, & this is the sixte moneth of her, which is reported to be baren:

²⁴ These wordes betoken somwhat. For these wemen are the two Testamentes: The one from the mount Sina, that gendreth vnto bondage, which is Agar.