Gen 16 | NASB2020 | STEP | Now Sarai , Abram’s wife , had not borne him a child , but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar .

Genesis 16

Sarai and Hagar

1 Now ^aSarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him a child, but she had ^ban Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. ^cPlease have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will ^{▼▼Lit be built from her}obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And so after Abram had lived ^eten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. 4 Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mistress was insignificant in her sight. 5 So Sarai said to Abram, “ ^fMay the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your ^{▼▼Lit breast}arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her ^{▼▼Lit eyes}sight. ⁱMay the Lord judge between ^{▼▼Lit me and you}you and me.” 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman is in your ^{▼▼Lit hand}power; do to her what is good in your ^{▼▼Lit eyes}sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and ^mshe fled from her presence.

7 Now ⁿthe angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to ^oShur. 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, ^pfrom where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” 9 So the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit ^{▼▼Lit under her hands}to her authority.” 10 The ^rangel of the Lord also said to her, “ ^sI will greatly multiply your ^{▼▼Lit seed}descendants so that ^{▼▼Lit they shall not be counted for multitude}they will be too many to count.” 11 The angel of the Lord said to her further,

“Behold, you are pregnant,
And you will give birth to a son;
And you shall name him ^{▼▼I.e., God hears}Ishmael,
Because ^wthe Lord has heard your affliction.
12 “But he will be a ^xwild donkey of a man;
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will live ^{▼▼Lit before the face of; or opposite
,} ^zin defiance of all his brothers.”
13 Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “ ^{▼▼Or You, God, see me}You are ^{▼▼Heb Elroi}a God who sees me”; for she said, “ ^acHave I even seen Him here and lived after ^{▼▼Lit His seeing me}He saw me?” 14 Therefore the well was called ^{▼▼I.e., the well of the living one who sees me}Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between ^afKadesh and Bered.

15 So Hagar bore a son to Abram; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael. 16 Abram was ^ageighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to ^{▼▼Lit Abram}him.