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Genesis 16 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sar'ai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - and Sar'ai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sar'ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sar'ai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:4 - And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sar'ai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sar'ai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sar'ai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 - And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit to her."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11 - And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ish'mael; because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12 - He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:13 - So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "Thou art a God of seeing"; for she said, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Therefore the well was called Beer-la'hai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ish'mael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ish'mael to Abram.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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Genesis Chapter 16 — Additional Translations:

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