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1 Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar, 2 she said to her husband: “Behold, the Lord has closed me, lest I give birth. Enter to my handmaid, so that perhaps I may receive sons of her at least.” And when he agreed to her supplication, 3 she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife. 4 And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress. 5 And Sarai said to Abram: “You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.” 6 Abram responded to her by saying, “Behold, your handmaid is in your hand to treat as it pleases you.” And so, when Sarai afflicted her, she took flight. 7 And when the Angel of the Lord had found her, near the fountain of water in the wilderness, which is on the way to Shur in the desert, Genesis 16:1-7, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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