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Genesis 16 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Sarai and Hagar

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will [fn]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - After Abram had [fn]lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:4 - He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your [fn]arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her [fn]sight. May the LORD judge between [fn]you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your [fn]power; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 - He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - Then the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself [fn]to her authority.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, “I will greatly multiply your [fn]descendants so that [fn]they will be too many to count.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11 - The angel of the LORD said to her further,
“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name [fn]Ishmael,
Because the LORD [fn]has given heed to your affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12 - “He will be a wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will [fn]live [fn]to the east of all his brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:13 - Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “[fn]You are [fn]a God who sees”; for she said, “Have I even [fn]remained alive here after seeing Him?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Therefore the well was called [fn]Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to [fn]him.
See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: be built from her
Literally: dwelt
Literally: bosom
Literally: eyes
Literally: me and you
Literally: hand
Literally: eyes
Literally: under her hands
Literally: seed
Or, it shall not be counted for multitude
I.e. God hears
Literally: has heard
Literally: dwell
Literally: before the face of; or in defiance of
Or, You, God, see me
Hebrew: Elroi
Literally: seen here after the one who saw me
I.e. the well of the living one who sees me
Literally: Abram
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