| 1 | Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar. |
| 2 | And Sarai said to Abram, See here, the Lord has restrained me from bearing [children]. I am asking you to have intercourse with my maid; it may be that I can obtain children by her. And Abram listened to
and
heeded what Sarai said. |
| 3 | So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife. |
| 4 | And he had intercourse with Hagar, and she became pregnant; and when she saw that she was with child, she looked with contempt upon her mistress
and
despised her. |
| 5 | Then Sarai said to Abram, May [the responsibility for] my wrong
and
deprivation of rights be upon you! I gave my maid into your bosom, and when she saw that she was with child, I was contemptible
and
despised in her eyes. May the Lord be the judge between you and me. |
| 6 | But Abram said to Sarai, See here, your maid is in your hands
and
power; do as you please with her. And when Sarai dealt severely with her, humbling
and
afflicting her, she [Hagar] fled from her. |
| 7 | But
[a]the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness on the road to Shur. |
| 8 | And He said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where did you come from, and where are you intending to go? And she said, I am running away from my mistress Sarai. |
| 9 | The Angel of the Lord said to her, Go back to your mistress and [humbly] submit to her control. |
| 10 | Also the Angel of the Lord said to her, I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be numbered for multitude. |
| 11 | And the Angel of the Lord continued, See now, you are with child and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael [God hears], because the Lord has heard
and
paid attention to your affliction. |
| 12 | And he [Ishmael] will be as a
[b]wild ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man’s hand against him, and he will live to the east
and
on the borders of all his kinsmen. |
| 13 | So she called the name of the Lord Who spoke to her, You are a God of seeing, for she said, Have I [not] even here [in the wilderness] looked upon Him Who sees me [and lived]?
Or
have I here also seen [the future purposes or designs of] Him Who sees me? |
| 14 | Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi [A well to the Living One Who sees me]; it is
[c]between Kadesh and Bered. |
| 15 | And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore
[d]Ishmael. |
| 16 | Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael. |
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