GENESIS Chapter 16
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16:1 Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an
Egyptian slave woman named Hagar, |
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16:2 and so she
said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Why don't you
sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed
with what Sarai said. |
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16:3 So she gave
Hagar to him to be his concubine. (This happened after Abram had lived in
Canaan for ten years.) |
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16:4 Abram had
intercourse with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she found out that she
was pregnant, she became proud and despised Sarai. |
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16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "It's your fault that Hagar despises
me. I myself gave her to you, and ever since she found out that she was
pregnant, she has despised me. May the LORD judge which of us is right, you
or me!" |
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16:6 Abram
answered, "Very well, she is your slave and under your control; do
whatever you want with her." Then Sarai
treated Hagar so cruelly that she ran away. |
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16:7 The angel of
the LORD met Hagar at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur |
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16:8 and said,
"Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come
from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away
from my mistress." |
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16:9 He said, "Go back to her and be her slave." |
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16:10 Then he said,
"I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count
them. |
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16:11 You are going
to have a son, and you will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your
cry of distress. |
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16:12 But your son
will live like a wild donkey; he will be against everyone, and everyone will
be against him. He will live apart from all his relatives." |
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16:13 Hagar asked
herself, "Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?" So
she called the LORD, who had spoken to her, "A God Who Sees." |
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16:14 That is why
people call the well between Kadesh and Bered "The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me."
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16:15 Hagar bore
Abram a son, and he named him Ishmael. |
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16:16 Abram was
eighty-six years old at the time. |
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