Genesis

¹Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar, ↗

²she said to her husband: ”Behold, the Lord has closed me, lest I give birth. Enter to my handmaid, so that perhaps I may receive sons of her at least.“ And when he agreed to her supplication, ↗

³she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife. ↗

⁴And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress. ↗

⁵And Sarai said to Abram: ”You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.“ ↗

⁶Abram responded to her by saying, ”Behold, your handmaid is in your hand to treat as it pleases you.“ And so, when Sarai afflicted her, she took flight. ↗

⁷And when the Angel of the Lord had found her, near the fountain of water in the wilderness, which is on the way to Shur in the desert, ↗

⁸he said to her: ”Hagar, handmaid of Sarai, where have you come from? And where will you go?“ And she answered, ”I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.“ ↗

⁹And the Angel of the Lord said to her, ”Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand.“ ↗

¹⁰And again he said, ”I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude.“ ↗

¹¹But thereafter he said: ”Behold, you have conceived, and you will give birth to a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction. ↗

¹²He will be a wild man. His hand will be against all, and all hands will be against him. And he will pitch his tents away from the region of all his brothers.“ ↗

¹³Then she called upon the name of the Lord who had spoken to her: ”You are the God who has seen me.“ For she said, ”Certainly, here I have seen the back of the one who sees me.“ ↗

¹⁴Because of this, she called that well: ‘The well of the one who lives and who sees me.’ The same is between Kadesh and Bered. ↗

¹⁵And Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, who called his name Ishmael. ↗

¹⁶Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for him. ↗