Genesis 16
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1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant 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, “The LORD has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.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 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)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.
4So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt.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, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms, but now that she’s pregnant she treats me with contempt. The LORD will show who’s wrong—you or 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!"
6Abram replied, “Look, she is your servant, so deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.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 beside a spring of water in the wilderness, 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.
8The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m 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."
9The angel of the LORD said to 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 he added, “I will give you more descendants than you can count.”10The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.
11And the angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the LORD has heard your cry of distress.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.
12This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives.”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."
13Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer to the LORD, who had spoken to her. She said, “You are the God who sees me.” She also said, “Have I truly 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."
14So that well was named Beer-lahai-roi (which means “well of the Living One who sees me”). It can still be found 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 gave Abram a son, and Abram named him Ishmael.15Hagar eventually gave birth to Abram's son. Abram named his son whom Hagar bore Ishmael.
16Abram was eighty-six years old when Ishmael was born.16Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.
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