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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 16 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Genesis 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/15.htm" title="Genesis 15">◄</a> Genesis 16 <a href="../genesis/17.htm" title="Genesis 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/16-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Hagar and Ishmael<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Sarai, Abram's wife, brought not forth to him; and to her a maid servant, an Egyptian, and her name Hagar. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Sarai will say to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah restrained me from bringing forth; go now to my maid servant; perhaps I shall have children from her. And Abram will listen to the voice of Sarai. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Sarai, Abram's wife, will take Hagar the Egyptian, her maid servant, at the end of ten years of Abram's resting in the land of Canaan, and will give her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Abram will go in to Hagar, and she will conceive, and she will see that she conceived; and her mistress will be despised in her eyes. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Sarai will say to Abram, My wrong upon thee: I gave my maid servant into thy bosom, and she will see that she conceived, and I shall be despised in her eyes. Jehovah will judge between me and between thee. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Abram will say to Sarai, Behold thy maid servant in thy hand; do to her the good in thine eyes. And Sarai shall afflict her, and she will flee from her face.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the messenger of Jehovah shall find her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he will say, Hagar, Sarai's maid servant, how camest thou here? and whither wilt thou go? And she will say, I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the messenger of Jehovah will say to her, Turn back to thy mistress and be humbled under her hands. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the messenger of Jehovah will say to her, Multiplying, I will multiply thy seed, and it shall not be counted for multitude.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the messenger of Jehovah will say to her, Behold, thou being great with child, and will bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, for Jehovah listened to thy humiliation.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he shall be an unrestrained man; his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him; and before the face of all his brethren shall he dwell.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And she will call the name of Jehovah, having spoken to her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Here also I looked after him seeing me. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For this, the well was called, The well of him seeing me; behold, between Kadesh and between Bered.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hagar brought forth a son to Abram, and Abram shall call his name which Hagar brought forth, Ishmael. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Abram the son of eighty years and six years, in Hagar's bearing Ishmael to Abram.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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