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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 BSB</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">BSB</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="/berean/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">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/genesis/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Hagar and Ishmael<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” <p class="reg"> And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now the angel<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” <p class="reg">“I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The angel of the LORD proceeded: <p class="indent1stline">“Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. <p class="indent2"> And you shall name him Ishmael,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <p class="indent2"> for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He will be a wild donkey of a man, <p class="indent2"> and his hand will be against everyone, <p class="indent2"> and everyone’s hand against him; <p class="indent1"> he will live in hostility <p class="indent2"> toward all his brothers.” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span>” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> It is located between Kadesh and Bered. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>her mistress became despised in her sight</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>Angel</i>; also in verses 9, 10, and 11; corresponding pronouns may also be capitalized.<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>Ishmael</i> means <i>God hears</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Hebrew <i>El-Roi</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <i>Beer-lahai-roi</i> means <i>well of the Living One who sees me</i>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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