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Genesis 16 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Sarai and Hagar

Gen 16:1

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

Gen 16:2So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will [fn]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Gen 16:3And so after Abram had lived ten 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.
Gen 16:4Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mistress was insignificant in her sight.
Gen 16:5So Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your [fn]arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her [fn]sight. May the LORD judge between [fn]you and me.”
Gen 16:6But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman 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.
Gen 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.

Gen 16:8He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, from where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
Gen 16:9So the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit [fn]to her authority.”
Gen 16:10The angel of the LORD also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your [fn]descendants so that [fn]they will be too many to count.”
Gen 16:11The 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 [fn]Ishmael,

Because the LORD has heard your affliction.

Gen 16:12

“But 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 live [fn]in defiance of all his brothers.”

Gen 16:13

Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “[fn]You are [fn]a God who sees me”; for she said, “Have I even seen Him here and lived after [fn]He saw me?”

Gen 16:14Therefore the well was called [fn]Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Gen 16:15

So Hagar bore a son to Abram; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael.

Gen 16:16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to [fn]him.
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit be built from her
Lit breast
Lit eyes
Lit me and you
Lit hand
Lit eyes
Lit under her hands
Lit seed
Lit they shall not be counted for multitude
I.e., God hears
Lit before the face of; or opposite
Or You, God, see me
Heb Elroi
Lit His seeing me
I.e., the well of the living one who sees me
Lit Abram
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