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16:1  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave whose name was Hagar,
16:2  and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
16:3  So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.
16:4  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  Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my slave 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 Sarai, “Your slave is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she ran away 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, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.”
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 offspring that they cannot be counted for multitude.”
16:11  And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Now you have conceived and shall bear a son; you shall call him Ishmael, for the Lord has given heed to your affliction.
16:12  He shall be a wild ass of a man, with his hand against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall live at odds with all his kin.”
16:13  So she named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are El-roi,” for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”
16:14  Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15  Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16:16  Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.