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16:1  Now Sar′ai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;
16:2  and Sar′ai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sar′ai.
16:3  So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sar′ai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
16:4  And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
16:5  And Sar′ai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”
16:6  But Abram said to Sar′ai, “Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sar′ai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
16:7  The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
16:8  And he said, “Hagar, maid of Sar′ai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sar′ai.”
16:9  The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”
16:10  The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude.”
16:11  And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ish′mael; because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.
16:12  He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
16:13  So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “Thou art a God of seeing”; for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”
16:14  Therefore the well was called Beer-la′hai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15  And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ish′mael.
16:16  Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ish′mael to Abram.