16:1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.
16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will ①obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
▷ ①Lit be built from her
16:3 And so after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
16:4 Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mistress was insignificant in her sight.
16:5 So Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your ①arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her ②sight. May the LORD judge between ③you and me.”
▷ ①Lit breast ②Lit eyes ③Lit me and you
16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman is in your ①power; do to her what is good in your ②sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.
▷ ①Lit hand ②Lit eyes
16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
16:8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, from where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
16:9 So the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit ①to her authority.”
▷ ①Lit under her hands
16:10 The angel of the LORD also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your ①descendants so that ②they will be too many to count.”
▷ ①Lit seed ②Lit they shall not be counted for multitude
16:11 The angel of the LORD said to her further,
“Behold, you are pregnant,
And you will give birth to a son;
And you shall name him ①Ishmael,
Because the LORD has heard your affliction.
▷ ①I.e., God hears
16:12 But he will be a wild donkey of a man;
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will live ①in defiance of all his brothers.”
▷ ①Lit before the face of; or opposite
16:13 Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “ ①You are ②a God who sees me”; for she said, “Have I even seen Him here and lived after ③He saw me?”
▷ ①Or You, God, see me ②Heb Elroi ③Lit His seeing me
16:14 Therefore the well was called ①Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
▷ ①I.e., the well of the living one who sees me
16:15 So Hagar bore a son to Abram; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael.
16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to ①him.
▷ ①Lit Abram