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1 Sarai, Abram's wife, had no children, but she had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar.
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1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
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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.
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2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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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.)
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3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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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.
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4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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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."
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5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me."
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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.
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6 "Your servant is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
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7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the desert, by the road to Shur.
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7 The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
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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."
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8 And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.
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9 The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."
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9 Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her."
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10 The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted."
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10 The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."
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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.
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11 The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.
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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."
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12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
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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?"
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13 She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me."
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14 So the well there, between Kadesh and Bered, was called Beer Lahai Roi.
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14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
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15 Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named him Ishmael.
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15 So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
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16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
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16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
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| Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Century Version Online Bible) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
