Hagar and Ishmael
1. Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar,
2. so she said to Abram, “Since the LORD has prevented me from bearing children, go to my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3. So after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram as his wife.
4. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. And when she realized that she was pregnant, she looked on her mistress with contempt.
5. Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my maidservant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
6. “Here,” Abram said, “your maidservant is in your hands. Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.
7. Now the Angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
8. And He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
9. Then the Angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
10. Again the Angel of the LORD said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”
11. Then the Angel of the LORD said to her, “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
12. He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
13. So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
14. Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
15. So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.