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She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave-girl; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my slave-girl to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> judge between you and me!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>But Abram said to Sarai, “Your slave-girl is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she ran away from her.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>And he said, “Hagar, slave-girl of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> also said to her, “I will so greatly multiply your offspring that they cannot be counted for multitude.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>And the angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to her,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“Now you have conceived and shall bear a son;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you shall call him Ishmael,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-393a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has given heed to your affliction.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>He shall be a wild ass of a man,</span><br /><span class="text">with his hand against everyone,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and everyone’s hand against him;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and he shall live at odds with all his kin.”</span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>So she named the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> who spoke to her, “You are El-roi”;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-395b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-395c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-396d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> it lies between Kadesh and Bered.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-398e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> Ishmael.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 16:11">Genesis 16:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>God hears</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 16:13">Genesis 16:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Perhaps <i>God of seeing</i> or <i>God who sees</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 16:13">Genesis 16:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 16:14">Genesis 16:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>the Well of the Living One who sees me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 16:16">Genesis 16:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Abram</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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