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Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar.
16:2
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Sarai said to Abram, “the Lord has denied me children; Take my slave-girl; maybe I will obtain children by her.” Then Abram listened to her
16:3
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so she took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, after Abram had lived for ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife
16:4
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and Abram lay with Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
16:5
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Sarai complained to Abram, “May the wrong I suffer be on you! I myself gave my slave-girl to you; and now that she sees that she has conceived, I am despised by her; may the Lord judge between me and you.”
16:6
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But Abram said to Sarai, “Your maid-servant is in your power, do to her whatever seems right to you.” Then Sarai ill-treated her so that she fled from her presence.
16:7
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The messenger of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring in the way to Shur.
16:8
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He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave-girl, where have you come from? And where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the presence of mistress Sarai.”
16:9
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Then the messenger of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit yourself to her authority.”
16:10
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Moreover the messenger of the Lord said to her, “I will make your descendants so many that they can not be numbered because they are so numerous.”
16:11
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The messenger of the Lord also said to her, “You are pregnant, and will have a son; you must call him Ishmael God hears, because the Lord has heard of your ill-treatment.”
16:12
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He will be like a wild donkey,
16:13
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Then she called the name of the Lord, who had spoken to her, El-roi (You are a God who sees me); for she said, “Have I seen God and am I still alive after I have looked upon him?”
16:14
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Therefore the well is called Beer-lahai-roi, (it is between Kadesh and Bered)
16:15
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Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16:16
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Abram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael.