Now ^aSarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him a child, but she had ^ban Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. ^aPlease have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will ¹obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And so after Abram had lived ^aten 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. 4 Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mistress was insignificant in her ¹sight. 5 So Sarai said to Abram, “^aMay the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your ¹arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her ²sight. ^bMay the LORD judge between ³you and me.” 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman is in your ¹power; do to her what is good in your ²sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and ^ashe fled from her presence.

7 Now ^athe angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to ^bShur. 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, ^afrom where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” 9 So the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit ¹to her authority.” 10 The ^aangel of the LORD also said to her, “^bI will greatly multiply your ¹descendants so that ²they will be too many to count.” 11 The 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 ¹Ishmael,Because ^athe LORD has heard your affliction.

13 Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “¹You are ²a God who sees me”; for she said, “^aHave I even seen Him here and lived after ³He saw me?” 14 Therefore the well was called ¹Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between ^aKadesh and Bered.

15 So Hagar bore a son to Abram; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael. 16 Abram was ^aeighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to ¹him.