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16:1  Sarai, Abram’s wife, had no children, but she had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar.
16:2  Sarai said to Abram, “Look, the Lord has not allowed me to have children, so have sexual relations with my slave girl. If she has a child, maybe I can have my own family through her.” Abram did what Sarai said.
16:3  It was after he had lived ten years in Canaan that Sarai gave Hagar to her husband Abram. (Hagar was her slave girl from Egypt.)
16:4  Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress Sarai badly.
16:5  Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is your fault. I gave my slave girl to you, and when she became pregnant, she began to treat me badly. Let the Lord decide who is right—you or me.”
16:6  But Abram said to Sarai, “You are Hagar’s mistress. Do anything you want to her.” Then Sarai was hard on Hagar, and Hagar ran away.
16:7  The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the desert, by the road to Shur.
16:8  The angel said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?” Hagar answered, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.”
16:9  The angel of the Lord said to her, “Go home to your mistress and obey her.”
16:10  The angel also said, “I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted.”
16:11  The angel added, “You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cries.
16:12  Ishmael will be like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will attack all his brothers.”
16:13  The slave girl gave a name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are ‘God who sees me,’” because she said to herself, “Have I really seen God who sees me?”
16:14  So the well there, between Kadesh and Bered, was called Beer Lahai Roi.
16:15  Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named him Ishmael.
16:16  Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.