1Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.2Sarai said to Abram, "Behold, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children; please come in to my maidservant; perhaps I will be built from her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.3Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.4He came in to Hagar, and she conceived; when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was light in her eyes.5Sarai said to Abram, "My violence is upon you; I myself gave my maidservant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I became light in her eyes; may the LORD judge between me and you."6Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maidservant is in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes." So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her presence.7The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.8He said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."9The messenger of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and afflict yourself under her hand."10The messenger of the LORD said to her, "I will surely multiply your seed, and it will not be counted because of abundance."11The angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and will bear a son; you shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction."12He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against all, and the hand of all against him, and he will dwell upon the face of all his brothers.13She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Have I even here looked upon the one who sees me?"14Therefore he called the well Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.15Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son whom Hagar bore.16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.