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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 maid whose name was Hagar.² So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. ^(C1)Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will ^(F1)obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.³ After Abram had ^(F1)lived ^(C1)ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.⁴ He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, "^(C1)May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your ^(F1)arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her ^(F2)sight. ^(C2)May the LORD judge between ^(F3)you and me."⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your ^(F1)power; do to her what is good in your ^(F2)sight." So Sarai treated her harshly, and ^(C1)she fled from her presence.

⁷ Now ^(C1)the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to ^(C2)Shur.⁸ He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, ^(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 the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself ^(F1)to her authority."¹⁰ Moreover, the ^(C1)angel of the LORD said to her, "^(C2)I will greatly multiply your ^(F1)descendants so that ^(F2)they will be too many to count."¹¹ The angel of the LORD said to her further,

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

¹² "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 ^(F1)live ^(F2)(C2)to the east of all his brothers."

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