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Sarai and Hagar

¹ Now ^(C1)Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, and she had ^(C2)an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar.² So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. ^(C1)Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will ^(F1)obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.³ And after Abram had ^(F1)lived ^(C1)ten 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.⁴ So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became ^(F1)contemptible in her sight.⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, "^(C1)May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your ^(F1)embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became ^(F2)contemptible in her ^(F3)sight. ^(C2)May Yahweh judge between ^(F4)you and me."⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant-woman is in your ^(F1)hand; do to her what is good in your ^(F2)sight." So Sarai afflicted her, and ^(C1)she fled from her presence.

⁷ Now ^(C1)the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to ^(C2)Shur.⁸ And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's servant-woman, ^(C1)where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."⁹ Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and ^(F1)humble yourself under her hands."¹⁰ Moreover, the ^(C1)angel of Yahweh said to her, "^(C2)I will greatly multiply your seed so that ^(F1)they will be too many to be counted."¹¹ And the angel of Yahweh said to her further,

"Behold, you ^(F1)are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name ^(F2)Ishmael,
Because ^(C1)Yahweh has heard your affliction.

¹² "And he will be a ^(C1)wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone's hand will be against him;
And he will dwell ^(F1)(C2)in the face of all his brothers."

¹⁵ So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.¹⁶ Now Abram was ^(C1)eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to ^(F1)him.