| 16 | Genesis | Passage |
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Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no child, but she had an Egyptian slave-girl called Hagar. |
Hagar and Ishmael. Gn.16.1-16
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So Sarai said to Abram, 'Listen, now! Since Yahweh has kept me from having children, go to my slave-girl. Perhaps I shall get children through her.' And Abram took Sarai's advice. |
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Thus, after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai took Hagar her Egyptian slave-girl and gave her to Abram as his wife. |
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He went to Hagar and she conceived. And once she knew she had conceived, her mistress counted for nothing in her eyes. |
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Then Sarai said to Abram, 'This outrage done to me is your fault! It was I who put my slave-girl into your arms but, now she knows that she has conceived, I count for nothing in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you!' |
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'Very well,' Abram said to Sarai, 'your slave-girl is at your disposal. Treat her as you think fit.' Sarai accordingly treated her so badly that she ran away from her. |
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The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur. |
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| 8 |
He said, 'Hagar, slave-girl of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?' 'I am running away from my mistress Sarai,' she replied. |
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| 9 |
The angel of Yahweh said to her, 'Go back to your mistress and submit to her.' |
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| 10 |
The angel of Yahweh further said to her, 'I shall make your descendants too numerous to be counted.' |
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| 11 |
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her:
Now, you have conceived and will bear a son,
and you shall name him Ishmael,
for Yahweh has heard your cries of distress.
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| 12 |
A wild donkey of a man he will be,
his hand against every man,
and every man's hand against him,
living his life in defiance of all his kinsmen. |
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| 13 |
Hagar gave a name to Yahweh who had spoken to her, 'You are El Roi,' by which she meant, 'Did I not go on seeing here, after him who sees me?' |
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| 14 |
This is why the well is called the well of Lahai Roi; it is between Kadesh and Bered. |
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| 15 |
Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave his son borne by Hagar the name Ishmael. |
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| 16 |
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael. |
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