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Hagar and Ishmael

¹Sarai, Abram’s wife, had still given him no children. But she owned an Egyptian servant named Hagar. ²Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the LORD has not let me bear children. Take my servant; it may be that through her I will have a family.” And Abram listened to Sarai. ³Ten years after Abram had settled in Canaan, his wife Sarai gave him Hagar, her Egyptian servant, as a wife. ⁴He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once she knew she was carrying a child, she began to look down on her mistress. ⁵Sarai said to Abram, “You are to blame for the wrong done to me! I gave my servant to you, and now that she is pregnant she holds me in contempt. The LORD be judge between you and me!” ⁶Abram answered Sarai, “She is your slave, and she is in your hands. Deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated her so harshly that she ran away. ⁷The angel of the LORD came upon her beside a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur. ⁸He asked her, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you headed?” She answered, “I am running away from Sarai, my mistress.” ⁹The angel of the LORD said to her, “Go back to your mistress and put yourself under her authority.” ¹⁰The angel of the LORD also said, “I will make your descendants so many that no one will be able to count them.” ¹¹Then the angel of the LORD said, “You are with child, and you will have a son. Call him Ishmael, for the LORD has listened to your suffering. ¹²He will be like a wild donkey: he will raise his hand against everyone, and everyone will raise a hand against him, and he will live at odds with all his kin.”^{a 13}So she gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me.” For she said, “Have I truly seen the One who watches over me?”^{b 14}That is why the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is still there, between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named the son she had borne him Ishmael. ¹⁶Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.