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		Gen 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
		Gen 16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, "See here, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. I am asking you to go in to [the bed of] my maid [so that she may bear you a child]; perhaps I will obtain children by her." And Abram listened to Sarai and did as she said.
		Gen 16:3 After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian [maid], and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife.
		Gen 16:4 He went in to [the bed of] Hagar, and she conceived; and when she realized that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress [regarding Sarai as insignificant because of her infertility].
		Gen 16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "May [the responsibility for] the wrong done to me [by the arrogant behavior of Hagar] be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, and when she realized that she had conceived, I was despised and looked on with disrespect. May the LORD judge [who has done right] between you and me."
		Gen 16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your maid is entirely in your hands and subject to your authority; do as you please with her." So Sarai treated her harshly and humiliated her, and Hagar fled from her.
		Gen 16:7 ¶ But the Angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, on the road to [Egypt by way of] Shur.
		Gen 16:8 And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where did you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."
		Gen 16:9 The Angel of the LORD said to her, "Go back to your mistress, and submit humbly to her authority."
		Gen 16:10 Then the Angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count."
		Gen 16:11 The Angel of the LORD continued, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall name him Ishmael (God hears), Because the LORD has heard and paid attention to your persecution (suffering).
		Gen 16:12 "He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man; His hand will be against every man [continually fighting] And every man's hand against him; And he will dwell in defiance of all his brothers."
		Gen 16:13 Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are God Who Sees"; for she said, "Have I not even here [in the wilderness] remained alive after seeing Him [who sees me with understanding and compassion]?"
		Gen 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi (Well of the Living One Who Sees Me); it is between Kadesh and Bered.
		Gen 16:15 ¶ So Hagar gave birth to Abram's son; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael (God hears).
		Gen 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

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