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Photos for Lesson 10, Gen 16-17
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 Hammurapi
(right), a ruler of Mesopotamia early in the 2nd millennium BC
compiled a code of laws (center) called the "Code of Hammurapi" (Musee
du Louvre, Paris).
This code allowed a wife who was childless to
give her husband a slave girl to bear children on her behalf. If the
slave girl produced children, the law allowed her to claim equality with
her mistress; and though she remained a slave, the law prohibited her
sale. This probably represents the cultural situation described in
Genesis 16 regarding Abraham, his wife Sarah, and her Egyptian slave
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Persecuted by Sarah, a pregnant Hagar flees south to the desert, apparently attempting to return to her home of Egypt. An angel meets her at a spring in the Kadesh area (left), and sends her back to Abraham and Sarah.