Genesis 16
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1Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.1Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.
2So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.2So Sarai told Abram, "You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her." Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion,
3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.3so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.
4And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.4He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
5Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”5Then Sarai told Abram, "My suffering is your fault! I gave you my servant so you could have sex with her , and when she discovered that she was pregnant, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.6Abram answered Sarai, "Look, your servant is under your control, so do to her as you wish." So Sarai dealt so harshly with Hagar that she ran away from Sarai.
7Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.7The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the desert on the road to Shur.
8“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.8"Hagar, servant of Sarai," he asked, "Where are you coming from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."
9So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”9The angel of the LORD told her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her authority."
10Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”10The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.
11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.11"Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son," the angel of the LORD continued to say to her. "You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of misery.
12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”12He'll be a wild donkey of a man. He'll be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will live in conflict with all of his relatives."
13So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”13So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are 'God who sees,' because I have truly seen the one who looks after me."
14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.14That's why the spring was called, "The Well of the Living One who Looks after Me." It was between Kadesh and Bered.
15And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.15Hagar eventually gave birth to Abram's son. Abram named his son whom Hagar bore Ishmael.
16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.16Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.
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