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Sarai and Hagar

¹ Now ^(C1)Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him a child, but she had ^(C2)an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.² So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. ^(C1)Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will ^(F1)obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.³ And so after Abram had lived ^(C1)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.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.⁵ So Sarai said to Abram, "^(C1)May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your ^(F1)arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her ^(F2)sight. ^(C2)May the LORD judge between ^(F3)you and me."⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your slave woman 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 slave woman, ^(C1)from where have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."⁹ So the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit ^(F1)to her authority."¹⁰ The ^(C1)angel of the LORD also 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 pregnant,
And you will give birth to a son;
And you shall name him ^(F1)Ishmael,
Because ^(C1)the LORD has heard your affliction.

¹² "But 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 live ^(F1)(C2)in defiance of all his brothers."

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