Genesis 16

1Sarai, Abram's wife, had no children. She had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

2Sarai said to Abram: The LORD has kept me from having children. Please sleep with my servant. Maybe I can have a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

3Abram had lived in Canaan for 10 years. Then Sarai took her Egyptian servant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

4Abram slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar knew she was pregnant, she looked down on Sarai.

5Sarai said to Abram: This wrong done to me is your fault. I gave my servant to you. Now that she is pregnant, she looks down on me. May the LORD judge between you and me.

6Abram said to Sarai: Your servant is in your hands. Do to her what you think is best. Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that Hagar ran away.

7The angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert. The spring was on the road to Shur.

8The angel said: Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from? Where are you going? Hagar said: I am running away from my mistress Sarai.

9The angel of the LORD said to her: Go back to your mistress. Obey her.

10The angel of the LORD also said: I will give you so many descendants that no one can count them.

11The angel of the LORD said: You are pregnant, and you will have a son. Name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of trouble.

12Ishmael will be a wild man. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand will be against him. Ishmael will live near all his brothers.

13Hagar gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: You are the God who sees me. She said: Have I really seen the One who sees me, even here?

14So the well was named Beer Lahai Roi, which means The well of the Living One who sees me. It is between Kadesh and Bered.

15Hagar had a son for Abram. Abram named the son Ishmael.

16Abram was 86 years old when Hagar had Ishmael.