Genesis - Chapter 16 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
  • 2. And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
  • 3. So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
  • 4. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
  • 5. And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
  • 6. But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
  • 7. The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
  • 8. And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
  • 9. The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."
  • 10. The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."
  • 11. And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.
  • 12. He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against 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, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me."
  • 14. Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
  • 15. And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
  • 16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
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