[1] Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar. [2] So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. [3] And after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant-woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. [4] So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became contemptible in her sight. [5] And Sarai said to Abram, “May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became contemptible in her sight. May Yahweh judge between you and me.” [6] But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your hand; do to her what is good in your sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence. [7] Now the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. [8] And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant-woman, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” [9] Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hands.” [10] Moreover, the angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed so that they will be too many to be counted.” [11] And the angel of Yahweh said to her further, “Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because Yahweh has heard your affliction. [12] “And 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 dwell in the face of all his brothers.” [13] Then she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees”; for she said, “Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?” [14] Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. [15] So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. [16] Now Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
