Genesis 16:9
New International Version
Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”

New Living Translation
The angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.”

English Standard Version
The angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her.”

Berean Standard Bible
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

King James Bible
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

New King James Version
The Angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand.”

New American Standard Bible
So the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.”

NASB 1995
Then the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”

NASB 1977
Then the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hands.”

Amplified Bible
The Angel of the LORD said to her, “Go back to your mistress, and submit humbly to her authority.”

Christian Standard Bible
The angel of the LORD said to her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the Angel of the LORD said to her, “You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment.”

American Standard Version
And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Angel of LORD JEHOVAH said to her, “Return to your Mistress and be subject under her hand.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Contemporary English Version
The angel said, "Go back to Sarai and be her slave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.

English Revised Version
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Messenger of the LORD said to her, "Go back to your owner, and place yourself under her authority."

Good News Translation
He said, "Go back to her and be her slave."

International Standard Version
The angel of the LORD told her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her authority."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'

Literal Standard Version
And the Messenger of YHWH says to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hands”;

Majority Standard Bible
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

New American Bible
But the LORD’s angel told her: “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.

NET Bible
Then the LORD's angel said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.

New Revised Standard Version
The angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”

New Heart English Bible
The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority."

Webster's Bible Translation
And the angel of the LORD said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

World English Bible
Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

Young's Literal Translation
And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, 'Turn back unto thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hands;'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Birth of Ishmael
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. 9So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.” 10Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”…

Cross References
Genesis 16:6
"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.

Genesis 16:8
"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.

Genesis 16:10
Then the angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."


Treasury of Scripture

And the angel of the LORD said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.

submit.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Ephesians 5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Ephesians 6:5,6
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; …

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Genesis 16
1. Sarai, being barren, gives Hagar to Abram.
4. Hagar, being afflicted for despising her mistress, runs away.
7. An angel commands her to return and submit herself,
10. promises her a numerous posterity,
12. and shows their character and condition.
13. Hagar names the place, and returns to Sarai.
15. Ishmael is born.
16. The age of Abram.














(9) Submit thyself.--Heb., humble thyself. It is the verb translated dealt hardly in Genesis 16:6. The angel therefore commands her to take the position which Sarai was forcing upon her; and by so doing proves to us that there had been no personal maltreatment. Commentators have taken this notion, not from the Hebrew, but from the English Version.

Verse 9. - And the angel of the Lord said unto her - as Paul afterwards practically said to Onesimus, the runaway slave of Philemon (vide Philippians 12) - return to thy mistress, and submit thyself - the verb here employed is the same as that, which the historian uses to describe Sarah s conduct towards her (Ver. 6); its meaning obviously is that she should meekly resign herself to the ungracious and oppressive treatment of her mistress - under her hands.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So the Angel
מַלְאַ֣ךְ (mal·’aḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4397: A messenger, of God, an angel

of the LORD
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

told
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

her,
לָהּ֙ (lāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

“Return
שׁ֖וּבִי (šū·ḇî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

your mistress
גְּבִרְתֵּ֑ךְ (gə·ḇir·têḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1404: Lady, queen, mistress

and submit
וְהִתְעַנִּ֖י (wə·hiṯ·‘an·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 6031: To be bowed down or afflicted

to her authority.”
תַּ֥חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of


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