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Genesis 16
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Genesis 16 . 1
1 Now Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:1TTHagar and Ishmael (Children of the Flesh)
Genesis 16 . 2
2 So Sarai said to Abram, "Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:2
Genesis 16 . 3
3 So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:3
Genesis 16 . 4
4 And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:4
Genesis 16 . 5
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me."CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:5
Genesis 16 . 6
6 "Here," said Abram, "your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:6
Genesis 16 . 7
7 Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:7
Genesis 16 . 8
8 "Hagar, servant of Sarai," he said, "where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I am running away from my mistress Sarai," she replied.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:8
Genesis 16 . 9
9 So the angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:9
Genesis 16 . 10
10 Then the angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:10
Genesis 16 . 11
11 The angel of the LORD proceeded: "Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:11
Genesis 16 . 12
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:12
Genesis 16 . 13
13 So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Here I have seen the One who sees me!"CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:13
Genesis 16 . 14
14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:14
Genesis 16 . 15
15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:15TTHagar and Ishmael (Children of the Flesh)
Genesis 16 . 16
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.CGenesis 16:1-16TOSKGenesis 16:16