Lesson 1, Topic 1
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6.1.6 Gen. 16: Hagar and Ishmael

It is part of the realism and honesty of the Bible that it does not conceal  the dark sides even of its great models of faith. In the rivalry between  Sarah and Hagar, the first shadow falls on the otherwise light-filled story of Abraham. Similarly, this theme is taken up again in the even more  dramatic version of the rivalry between Ishmael and Isaac Gen. 21.