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Hagar and Ishmael
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
Sarai and Hagar
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
so 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.
Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
So 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.
After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
Then 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.”
And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.
The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
And 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.
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
Then the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”
The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”
The angel of the LORD said to her further,
“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.
“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.
“He will be a wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”
Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees”; for she said, “Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?”
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.