The passage discusses the biblical story in Genesis 16 about Abram, his wife Sarai, and Sarai's slave Hagar. Due to Sarai's inability to conceive, she offers Hagar to Abram to bear a child as her surrogate. When Hagar becomes pregnant, tensions arise between the women. God later speaks to the fleeing Hagar, promising her many descendants and directing her to return to Sarai.