[1] Sarai, Abram's wife, had no children, but she had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar. [2] Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the LORD has not allowed me to have children, so have sexual relations with my slave girl. If she has a child, maybe I can have my own family through her." Abram did what Sarai said. [3] It was after he had lived ten years in Canaan that Sarai gave Hagar to her husband Abram. (Hagar was her slave girl from Egypt.) [4] Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress Sarai badly. [5] Then Sarai said to Abram, "This is your fault. I gave my slave girl to you, and when she became pregnant, she began to treat me badly. Let the LORD decide who is right-you or me." [6] But Abram said to Sarai, "You are Hagar's mistress. Do anything you want to her." Then Sarai was hard on Hagar, and Hagar ran away. [7] The angel of the LORD found Hagar beside a spring of water in the desert, by the road to Shur. [8] The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai." [9] The angel of the LORD said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her." [10] The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted." [11] The angel added, "You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cries. [12] Ishmael will be like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will attack all his brothers." [13] The slave girl gave a name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are 'God who sees me,'" because she said to herself, "Have I really seen God who sees me?" [14] So the well there, between Kadesh and Bered, was called Beer Lahai Roi. [15] Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named him Ishmael. [16] Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
