Genesis 16

¹Now Sarai , Abram’s wife , had borne him no children . She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar .

²And 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 .

³So, 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 .

⁴And he went in to Hagar , and she conceived . And when she saw that she had conceived , she looked with contempt on her mistress .

⁵And 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!

⁶But 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 .

⁷The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness , the spring on the way to Shur .

⁸And 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 .

⁹The angel of the Lord said to her, Return to your mistress and submit to her .

¹⁰The angel of the Lord also said to her, I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude .

¹¹And 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 .

¹²He 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 .

¹³So 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.

¹⁴Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi ; it lies between Kadesh and Bered .

¹⁵And Hagar bore Abram a son , and Abram called the name of his son , whom Hagar bore , Ishmael .

¹⁶Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram .