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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; |
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so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said. |
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So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. |
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He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. |
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Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me." |
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"Your servant is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai ill-treated Hagar; so she fled from her. |
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The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. |
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And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered. |
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Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her." |
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The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count." |
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The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery. |
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He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility towards all his brothers." |
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She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me." |
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That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered. |
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So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. |
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael. |
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