... and? - Teacher

Posted: Nov 30th, 2017 - 1:16 pm In Reply to: In my Torah class we leaned "Sarai GIVES her maidservant Hagar" - to Avraham (Hebrew) to bear him a child

What was a perfectly normal custom?

Was it explained in your class what kind of relationship they (Hagar and Abraham) had? Was it a common-law marriage?

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