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Genesis 16:1
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Hagar and Ishmael
Now Sarai,(a) Abram's wife, had borne him no children.(b) But she had an Egyptian slave(c) named Hagar;(d)Footnotes:
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Genesis 16:2
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so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children.(e) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her."(f) Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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Genesis 16:3
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So after Abram had been living in Canaan(g) ten years,(h) Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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Genesis 16:4
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He slept with Hagar,(i) and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.(j)
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Genesis 16:5
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Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me."(k)
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Genesis 16:6
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"Your slave is in your hands,(l)" Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated(m) Hagar; so she fled from her.
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Genesis 16:7
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The angel of the Lord (n) found Hagar near a spring(o) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.(p)
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Genesis 16:8
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And he said, "Hagar,(q) slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?"(r) "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.
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Genesis 16:9
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Then the angel of the Lord told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her."
Genesis 16:10
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The angel added, "I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count."(s)
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Genesis 16:11
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The angel of the Lord (t) also said to her: "You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son.(u) You shall name him(v) Ishmael,[a](w) for the Lord has heard of your misery.(x)
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Genesis 16:12
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He will be a wild donkey(y) of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward[b] all his brothers.(z)"
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Genesis 16:13
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She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me,(aa)" for she said, "I have now seen[c] the One who sees me."(ab)
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Genesis 16:14
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That is why the well(ac) was called Beer Lahai Roi[d];(ad) it is still there, between Kadesh(ae) and Bered.
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Genesis 16:15
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So Hagar(af) bore Abram a son,(ag) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(ah) to the son she had borne.
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Genesis 16:16
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Abram was eighty-six years old(ai) when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
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