Genesis 16
Sarai and Hagar
16Now aSarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had ban Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar. 2So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. aPlease go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will 1obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3And after Abram had 1lived aten 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. 4So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became 1contemptible in her sight. 5And Sarai said to Abram, “aMay the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your 1embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became 2contemptible in her 3sight. bMay Yahweh judge between 4you and me.” 6But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your 1hand; do to her what is good in your 2sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and ashe fled from her presence.
7Now athe angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to bShur. 8And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant-woman, awhere have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” 9Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and 1humble yourself under her hands.” 10Moreover, the aangel of Yahweh said to her, “bI will greatly multiply your seed so that 1they will be too many to be counted.” 11And the angel of Yahweh said to her further, “Behold, you 1are with child,And you will bear a son;And you shall call his name 2Ishmael,Because aYahweh has heard your affliction.
12“And he will be a awild donkey of a man,His hand will be against everyone,And everyone’s hand will be against him;And he will dwell 1,bin the face of all his brothers.”