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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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 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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Hagar and Ishmael</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.1" class="v0_16_1">1</span>Abram's wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar, </span><span class="v0_16_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.2" class="v0_16_2">2</span>and Sarai said to Abram, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.16.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Abram agreed, </span><span class="v0_16_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.3" class="v0_16_3">3</span>and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years. </span><span class="v0_16_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.4" class="v0_16_4">4</span>Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and treated Sarai hatefully.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.5" class="v0_16_5">5</span>Then Sarai said to Abram, “It's all your fault!<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.16.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant. You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> for this.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.6" class="v0_16_6">6</span>Abram said, “All right! She's your slave—do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.7" class="v0_16_7">7</span>Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur. While she was there, the angel of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> came to her </span><span class="v0_16_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.8" class="v0_16_8">8</span>and asked, “Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_8">She answered, “I'm running away from Sarai, my owner.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.9" class="v0_16_9">9</span>The angel said, “Go back to Sarai and be her slave. </span><span class="v0_16_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.10-Gen.16.11" class="v0_16_10">10-11</span>I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.16.10-Gen.16.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> because I have heard your cry for help. And someday I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all. </span><span class="v0_16_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.12" class="v0_16_12">12</span>But your son will live far from his relatives; he will be like a wild donkey, fighting everyone, and everyone fighting him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.13" class="v0_16_13">13</span>Hagar thought, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?”<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.16.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> So from then on she called him, “The God Who Sees Me.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.16.13!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v0_16_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.14" class="v0_16_14">14</span>That's why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered, “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.16.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_16_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.16.15-Gen.16.16" class="v0_16_15">15-16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.16.15-Gen.16.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Sleep … mine: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">It was the custom for a wife who could not have children to let her husband sleep with one of her slave women. The children of the slave would belong to the wife.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">It's … fault: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “I hope you'll be punished for what you did to me!”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.10,11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ishmael: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew “Ishmael” sounds like “God hears.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Have … it: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The God Who Sees Me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “The God I Have Seen.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The Well … Me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Beer-Lahai-Roi” (see 25.11).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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