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¹NOW Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Hagar. ²And Sarai said to Abram, Look now, Yahvah has restrained me from bearing children; therefore go into my maid; it may be that I may be consoled by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. ³And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her Egyptian maid, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived 10 years in the land of Canaan.

⁴And he went into Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. ⁵And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on you; I gave my maid into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes; may Yahvah judge between me and you. ⁶But Abram said to Sarai his wife, Look your maid is at your disposal; do to her as it pleases you. And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her.

⁷And the angel of Yahvah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the road to Gadar. ⁸And he said to her, Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going? And she said, I flee from the presence of my mistress Sarai. ⁹And the angel of Yahvah said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.

¹⁰And the angel of Yahvah said to her, I will greatly multiply your descendants, that they can not be numbered because of their multitude. ¹¹And the angel of Yahvah said to her, Look, you are pregnant, and will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael; because Yahvah has heard of your afflictions. ¹²And he will be like a wild donkey among men; with his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he will live on the borders of all his brothers. ¹³And she called the name of Yahvah who spoke to her, and said, You are God whom I saw; for she said, Look, I have also seen a vision after he had seen me. ¹⁴Therefore, she called the well, Beerdikhayakhizan, which means, the well of the Living One who saw me. Look, it is between Rakim and Gadar. ¹⁵And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called his son's name, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. ¹⁶And Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.