Genesis 16
GEN 16:1 And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an
handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name `is' Hagar;
GEN 16:2 and Sarai saith unto Abram, `Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained
me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up
from her;' and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.
GEN 16:3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at
the end of the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth
her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,
GEN 16:4 and he goeth in unto Hagar, and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she
hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes.
GEN 16:5 And Sarai saith unto Abram, `My violence `is' for thee; I -- I have
given mine handmaid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I
am lightly esteemed in her eyes; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.'
GEN 16:6 And Abram saith unto Sarai, `Lo, thine handmaid `is' in thine hand, do
to her that which is good in thine eyes;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she
fleeth from her presence.
GEN 16:7 And a messenger of Jehovah findeth her by the fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the way `to' Shur,
GEN 16:8 and he saith, `Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence hast thou come, and
whither dost thou go?' and she saith, `From the presence of Sarai, my mistress,
I am fleeing.'
GEN 16:9 And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Turn back unto thy
mistress, and humble thyself under her hands;'
GEN 16:10 and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Multiplying I multiply thy
seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;'
GEN 16:11 and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Behold thou `art'
conceiving, and bearing a son, and hast called his name Ishmael, for Jehovah
hath hearkened unto thine affliction;
GEN 16:12 and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one's
hand against him -- and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.'
GEN 16:13 And she calleth the name of Jehovah who is speaking unto her, `Thou
`art', O God, my beholder;' for she said, `Even here have I looked behind my
beholder?'
GEN 16:14 therefore hath one called the well, `The well of the Living One, my
beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered.
GEN 16:15 And Hagar beareth to Abram a son; and Abram calleth the name of his
son, whom Hagar hath borne, Ishmael;
GEN 16:16 and Abram `is' a son of eighty and six years in Hagar's bearing
Ishmael to Abram.
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