Berean Standard Bible
- 1 Now Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
- 2 So Sarai said to Abram, "Look now, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- 3 So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
- 4 And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
- 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May Yahweh judge between you and me."
- 6 "Here," said Abram, "your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
- 7 Now the angel of Yahweh found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert-the spring along the road to Shur.
- 8 "Hagar, servant of Sarai," he said, "where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I am running away from my mistress Sarai," she replied.
- 9 So the angel of Yahweh told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."
- 10 Then the angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."
- 11 The angel of Yahweh proceeded: "Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for Yahweh has heard your cry of affliction.
- 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
- 13 So Hagar gave this name to Yahweh who had spoken to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Here I have seen the One who sees me!"
- 14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
- 15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
- 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
