Genesis
16
- Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no
children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
- so she said to Abram, "The LORD has
kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can
build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
- So after Abram had been living in Canaan
ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her
to her husband to be his wife.
- He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
- Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are
responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and
now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between
you and me."
- "Your servant is in your hands,"
Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated
Hagar; so she fled from her.
- The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a
spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
- And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai,
where have you come from, and where are you going ?" "I'm running
away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.
- Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go
back to your mistress and submit to her."
- The angel added, "I will so increase
your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."
- The angel of the LORD also said to her:
"You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael,
for the LORD has heard of your misery.
- He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand
will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live
in hostility toward all his brothers."
- She gave this name to the LORD who spoke
to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have
now seen the One who sees me."
- That is why the well was called Beer Lahai
Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
- So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave
the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
- Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar
bore him Ishmael.
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