Genesis 16

1 And Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to children for him. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Now look, YHWH has restrained me from giving birth, please go in to my handmaid. Perhaps I will be built up from her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram’s staying in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram—to him for a wife. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived, and she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “My violence is for you. I have given my handmaid into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. May YHWH judge between me and you.” 6 And Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your handmaid is in your hand, do to her that which is good in your eyes.” And Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence. 7 And the Messenger of YHWH found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur, 8 and He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, from where have you come, and to where do you go?” And she said, “From the presence of Sarai, my mistress, I am fleeing.” 9 And the Messenger of YHWH said to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hands”. 10 And the Messenger of YHWH said to her, “Multiplying I multiply your seed, and it is not numbered from multitude”. 11 And the Messenger of YHWH said to her, “Look you are conceiving, and bearing a son, and have called his name Ishmael, for YHWH has listened to your affliction. 12 And he will be a wild-donkey of a man, his hand against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him—and before the face of all his brothers he stays.” 13 And she called the name of YHWH who was speaking to her, “You are, O God, my beholder.” For she said, “Even here have I looked behind my beholder?” 14 Therefore has one called the well, “The well of the Living One, my beholder”. Look, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar bore a son for Abram. And Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar had borne, Ishmael. 16 and Abram was 86 years old in Hagar’s bearing Ishmael for Abram.


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