1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear him any children. And she had a maidservant, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar. 2And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has kept me from bearing. I pray you, go in to my maidservant. It may be that I may obtain children by her." And Abram hearkened to the words of Sarai. 3And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maidservant, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife (after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan). 4And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when Hagar saw that she had conceived, she looked upon her mistress with contempt. 5And Sarai said to Abram, "My wrong be upon you. I have given my maidservant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you." 6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maidservant is in your hand. Do to her as it pleases you." And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her presence.

7And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur. 8And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, where did you come from? And where will you go?" And she said, "I flee from the presence of my mistress Sarai." 9And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hands." 10And the angel of the LORD said to her, "I will multiply your seed exceedingly, so that they shall not be numbered for multitude."

11And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael because the LORD has heard your affliction.

12And he will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And he shall live in the presence of all his brothers."

13And she called the name of the LORD Who had spoken to her, You are a God of Seeing! For she said, "Even here have I seen Him that sees me?" 14Therefore the well was called The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

15And Hagar bore Abram a son. And Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.