Genesis 16:1 KJV
Now Sarai
Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose
name was Hagar.
Hagar was an Egyptian. Though
the Bible does not clearly tell us when Hagar came under the house of Abram we
can surmise that it must have been after Abram traveled there for the famine.
The Bible tells us that pharaoh had maids and manservants and animals,
suggesting that these were given to Abram. If this is the case then the sin of
Abram and Sarai concerning Hagar is linked to the sun of Abram going to Egypt
in the first place. This sin grows into troubles for Abraham's children, that
exists to this very day.
Is there not a lesson for us
in this?
We never know where one small
lapse of faith may lead. We never know the final consequences of committing a
sin, no matter how small it might seem to be. We justify and excuse and
willfully sin believing we have gotten away with it. The truth is our children
may pay for that sin for generations to come.
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