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^IAnd Abram’s wife Sarai had not given birth by him. And she had an Egyptian maid, and her name was Hagar. ²And Sarai said to Abram, “Here, YHWH has held me back from giving birth. Come to my maid. Maybe I’ll get ‘childed’ through her.” And Abram listened to Sarai’s voice. ³And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maid, at the end of ten years of Abram’s living in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram, her husband, as a wife to him. ⁴And he came to Hagar, and she became pregnant. And she saw that she had become pregnant, and her mistress was lowered in her eyes.

⁵And Sarai said to Abram, “My injury is on you. I, I placed my maid in your bosom, and she saw that she had become pregnant, and I was lowered in her eyes. Let YHWH judge between me and you.”

⁶And Abram said to Sarai, “Here, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” And Sarai degraded her, and she fled from her.

⁷And an angel of YHWH found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur, ⁸and said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, from where have you come, and where will you go?”

And she said, “I’m fleeing from Sarai, my mistress.”

⁹And the angel of YHWH said to her, “Go back to your mistress, and suffer the degradation under her hands.” ¹⁰And the angel of YHWH said, “I’ll multiply your seed, and it won’t be countable because of its great number.” ¹¹And the angel of YHWH said to her, “Here, you’re pregnant and will give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael, for YHWH has listened to your suffering. ¹²And he’ll be a wild ass of a man, his hand against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him, and he’ll tent among all his brothers.”

¹³And she called the name of YHWH who spoke to her “You are El-roi,” for she said, “Have I also seen after the one who sees me here?” ¹⁴On account of this the well was called “the well Lahai-roi.” Here it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵And Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar had borne Ishmael. ¹⁶And Abram was eighty years and six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.