Genesis 16
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Hagar — The God Who Sees

Ten years in Canaan, still no child. Sarai gives her Egyptian slave Hagar to Abram as a surrogate wife. When Hagar conceives, the social dynamic fractures. Hagar flees into the wilderness — and becomes the first person in all of Scripture to be visited by the angel of the LORD. She names God: El Roi, the God who sees me. It is the only time in the Bible that a human being gives God a name.

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