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Genesis 16 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Gen 16:1

Gen 16:1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Gen 16:2

Gen 16:2And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

Gen 16:3

Gen 16:3So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

Gen 16:4

Gen 16:4And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

Gen 16:5

Gen 16:5And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

Gen 16:6

Gen 16:6And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

Gen 16:7

Gen 16:7And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Gen 16:8

Gen 16:8And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

Gen 16:9

Gen 16:9And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

Gen 16:10

Gen 16:10And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

Gen 16:11

Gen 16:11And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

Gen 16:12

Gen 16:12And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

Gen 16:13

Gen 16:13And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

Gen 16:14

Gen 16:14So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Gen 16:15

Gen 16:15And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

Gen 16:16

Gen 16:16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
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