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

Sarai and Hagar

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

Gen 16:2So 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.

Gen 16:3

Gen 16:3After 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.

Gen 16:4

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

Gen 16:5

Gen 16:5And 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.”

Gen 16:6

Gen 16:6But 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.

Gen 16:7

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

Gen 16:8

Gen 16:8He 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.”

Gen 16:9

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

Gen 16:10

Gen 16:10Moreover, 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.”

Gen 16:11

Gen 16:11The 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.

Gen 16:12

Gen 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.”

Gen 16:13

Gen 16:13Then 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?”

Gen 16:14

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

Gen 16:15

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

Gen 16:16

Gen 16:16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to [fn]him.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(16:2)

Literally: be built from her

Literally: dwelt

Literally: bosom

Literally: eyes

Literally: me and you

(16:6)

Literally: hand

(16:6)

Literally: eyes

(16:9)

Literally: under her hands

(16:10)

Literally: seed

(16:10)

Or, it shall not be counted for multitude

(16:11)

I.e. God hears

(16:11)

Literally: has heard

(16:12)

Literally: dwell

(16:12)

Literally: before the face of; or in defiance of

(16:13)

Or, You, God, see me

(16:13)

Hebrew: Elroi

(16:13)

Literally: seen here after the one who saw me

(16:14)

I.e. the well of the living one who sees me

(16:16)

Literally: Abram

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