Genesis 16  Legacy Standard Bible

Sarai and Hagar

16 Now ^(A)Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had ^(B)an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar. ² So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. ^(C)Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will ^[a]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. ³ And after Abram had ^[b]lived ^(D)ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant-woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. ⁴ So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became ^[c]contemptible in her sight. ⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, “^(E)May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your ^[d]embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became ^[e]contemptible in her ^[f]sight. ^(F)May Yahweh judge between ^[g]you and me.” ⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your ^[h]hand; do to her what is good in your ^[i]sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and ^(G)she fled from her presence.

⁷ Now ^(H)the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to ^(I)Shur. ⁸ And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant-woman, ^(J)where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” ⁹ Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and ^[j]humble yourself under her hands.” ¹⁰ Moreover, the ^(K)angel of Yahweh said to her, “^(L)I will greatly multiply your seed so that ^[k]they will be too many to be counted.” ¹¹ And the angel of Yahweh said to her further,

¹³ Then she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “^[o]You are ^[p]a God who sees”; for she said, “^(P)Have I even ^[q]remained alive here after seeing Him?” ¹⁴ Therefore the well was called ^[r]Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between ^(Q)Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. ¹⁶ Now Abram was ^(R)eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to ^[s]him.