Timeline for Did Abram have to make Hagar a concubine in order to utilize her to produce an heir (on Sarah's behalf)?
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| Sep 8, 2019 at 7:26 | comment | added | Lucian | The 144th Law of Hammurabi reads: If anyone [a man] takes a wife and his wife gives her husband a servant, and the servant has children by him, and the man then declares his intention of taking a side wife [concubine], he shall not be allowed so to do. He shall have no side wife [concubine]. This seems to parallel the events described in Genesis 16, where Sarah gives her maidservant Hagar to Abraham so that he might conceive sons wit her. In English, the maidservant would also be called concubine, hence your confusion. | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 0:20 | comment | added | tblue | +1 for an interesting and informative search. | |
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| Sep 7, 2019 at 1:56 | answer | added | Bill | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 22:21 | history | asked | sss979 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |