2 and Sarai said to her husband, Lo! the Lord hath closed me, that I should not bear child; enter thou [in] to my servantess, if in hap I shall take children, namely of her. And when he assented to her praying,
3 she took Hagar the Egyptian, her servantess, after ten years after that they began to inhabit the land of Canaan, and she gave Hagar as[a] wife to her husband.
4 And Abram entered [in] to Hagar; and Hagar saw that she had conceived, and she despised her lady.
5 And Sarai said to Abram, Thou doest wickedly against me; I gave my servantess into thy bosom, which seeth that she [hath] conceived, and despiseth me; the Lord deem betwixt me and thee.
6 And Abram answered and said to her, Lo! thy servantess is in thine hand; use thou her as thee liketh. Therefore for Sarai tormented her, she fled away.
7 And when the angel of the Lord had found her beside a well of water in wilderness, which well is in the way of Shur in desert,
8 he said to her, From whence comest thou Hagar, the servantess of Sarai, and whither goest thou? Which answered, I flee from the face of Sarai, my lady.
9 And the angel of the Lord said to her, Turn thou again to thy lady, and be thou meeked under her hands.
10 And again he said, I multiplying shall multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11 And afterward he said, Lo! thou hast conceived, and thou shalt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, for the Lord hath heard thy torment;
12 this shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against all men, and the hands of all men shall be against him; and he shall set his tabernacles even against all his brethren.
13 Forsooth Hagar called the name of the Lord that spake to her, Thou God that sawest me; for she said, Forsooth here I saw the hinder things of him that saw me.
14 Therefore she called that well, The well of him that liveth and seeth me; that well is betwixt Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar childed a son to Abram, which called his name Ishmael.
16 Abram was eighty years and six, when Hagar childed Ishmael to him.
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