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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Sarai told Abram, "You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her." Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then Sarai told Abram, "My suffering is your fault! I gave you my servant so you could have sex with her , and when she discovered that she was pregnant, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!" |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Abram answered Sarai, "Look, your servant is under your control, so do to her as you wish." So Sarai dealt so harshly with Hagar that she ran away from Sarai. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the desert on the road to Shur. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Hagar, servant of Sarai," he asked, "Where are you coming from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The angel of the LORD told her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her authority." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son," the angel of the LORD continued to say to her. "You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of misery. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He'll be a wild donkey of a man. He'll be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will live in conflict with all of his relatives." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are 'God who sees,' because I have truly seen the one who looks after me." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14That's why the spring was called, "The Well of the Living One who Looks after Me." It was between Kadesh and Bered. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Hagar eventually gave birth to Abram's son. Abram named his son whom Hagar bore Ishmael. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram. |
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