Sarai and Hagar
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1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was 2Hagar.
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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 childrena by her. ” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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So, after Abram 3had 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, 4she looked with contempt on her mistress. b
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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 5the 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 6Shur.
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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, 7“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, c 8because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
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He shall be 9a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell 10over 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, ” d for she said, 11“Truly here I have seen him who looks after me. ” e
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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.
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