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16:1  Abram’s wife, Sarai, had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
16:2  Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
16:3  So Abram’s wife, Sarai, took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband, Abram, as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years.
16:4  He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she saw that she was pregnant, her mistress became contemptible to her.
16:5  Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the Lord judge between me and you.”
16:6  Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your power; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.
16:7  The angel of the Lord found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
16:8  He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”
16:9  The angel of the Lord said to her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
16:10  The angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”
16:11  The angel of the Lord said to her, “You have conceived and will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your cry of affliction.
16:12  This man will be like a wild donkey. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him; he will settle near all his relatives.”
16:13  So she named the Lord who spoke to her: “You are El-roi,” for she said, “In this place, have I actually seen the one who sees me?”
16:14  That is why the well is called Beer-lahai-roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15  So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram named his son (whom Hagar bore) Ishmael.
16:16  Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.