Genesis 16 NIV ISV Parallel

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1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave 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 she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

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 Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband 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.

4He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew 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, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. 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"Your slave is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so 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.

7The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

7The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the desert on the road to Shur.

8And he said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.

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."

9Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her."

9The angel of the LORD told her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her authority."

10The angel added, "I will increase your descendants so much 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 also said to her: "You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.

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; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and 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."

13She 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."

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."

14That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, 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.

15So 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 him Ishmael.

16Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.

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