Limning the Ordinary

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Drawing the Curtain

Drawing the Curtain

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Bonita Jewel
Oct 06, 2024
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All we know is that she was an Egyptian and that she was a slave.

Was Hagar young?

Was she beautiful?

Had she been born into poverty and sold by her family to pay off debts? Had she been kidnapped and carried away without her parents’ knowledge of what happened to her?

We know little more than that she was far from home and that she was in bondage. As a bon…

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