Chapter 16
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And Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not borne to him, and she had an Egyptian female servant whose name was Hagar.
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And Sarai said to Abram, "Now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing—go now into my maidservant; perhaps I will be built up from her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her female slave, after Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan for ten years, and she gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.
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And he came to Hagar, and she conceived, and she saw that she had conceived, and she despised her mistress in her eyes.
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Sarai said to Abram, "My violence is upon you! I gave my maidservant into your bosom, and she saw that she was pregnant, and I was despised in her eyes. May the LORD judge between me and you."
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And Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maidservant is in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes." And Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence.
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The angel of the LORD found her by the spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
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And he said to Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, "Where have you come from, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from before Sarai my mistress."
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The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hands."
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And the Angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your Seed, so that it will not be counted for multitude."
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And the angel of the LORD said to her, "You are pregnant and you will bear a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your affliction."
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And he will be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against all and the hand of all against him, and he will dwell in the presence of all his brothers.
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She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are El Roi," for she said, "Even here have I seen after my seeing?"
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Therefore she called the well the Well of the Living One Who Sees Me; it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called his son whom Hagar bore Ishmael.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.