Genesis 16 / 50
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(Sarai and Hagar)
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
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And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
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And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
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And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant 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!"
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But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
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The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
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And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
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The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."
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The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."
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And the angel of the Lord said to her,
"Behold, you are pregnant
and shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
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He shall be a wild donkey of a man,
his hand against everyone
and everyone's hand against him,
and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."
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So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me."Hebrew Have I really seen him here who sees me? or Would I have looked here for the one who sees me?
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Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
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And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.