Hagar and Ishmael
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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him nochildren.
But she had and Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
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so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me form having children.
Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her."
Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took
her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering.
I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant,
she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me."
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"Your servant is in your hands," Abram said.
"Do with her whatever you think best."
Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
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Then angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert;
it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
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And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from,
and where are you going?"
"I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered
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Then the angel of the LORD told her,
"Go back to your mistress and submit to her."
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The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that
they will be too numerous to count."
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The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and
you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael,
for theLORD has heard of your misery.
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He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and
everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
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She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her:
"You are the God who sees me."
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That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi;
it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
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So Hagar bore ZAbram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael
to the son she had borne.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
