Saraï, épouse d’Abram, prit Agar l’Egyptienne, son esclave, il y avait dix ans qu’Abram demeurait au pays de Canaan; et elle la donna à son époux Abram pour qu’elle lui servît de femme.
On Mating with the Preliminary Studies
[71] The verse continues, “So Sarah the wife of Abraham, ten years after Abraham dwelt in Canaan, took Hagar the Egyptian her handmaid and gave her to Abraham her husband as his wife” (Gen. 16:3). Now vice is malignant and sour and ill-minded by nature, while virtue is gentle and sociable and kindly, willing in every way, either by herself or others, to help those whom nature has gifted. Thus in the case before us,