Old Testament · Law

Genesis chapter 16

Now Sarai, Abram’s , hadn’t been able to have children for him. But she had an Egyptian named Hagar.So Sarai said to Abram, “Look, has kept me from having children. Sleep with my servant — maybe I can .” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.So after Abram had been living in the land of for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram .He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when she realized she was pregnant, she started her .Then Sarai said to Abram, “! I put my servant in your arms, and now that she’s pregnant, she looks down on me. !”Abram told Sarai, “Look, your servant is . Do whatever you think is best.” So Sarai that she ran away.The found her by a spring of water in the wilderness — the spring on the road to .He said, “Hagar, — where have you come from, and where are you going?” She said, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”The angel of Yahweh told her, “Go back to your mistress and .”Then the angel of Yahweh told her, “I will give you so many that they’ll be too many to count.”The angel of Yahweh also told her, “You are pregnant and will have a son. Name him — because Yahweh has heard your .”He’ll be a — his hand against everyone, everyone’s hand against him — and he’ll all his relatives.She gave Yahweh — the one who had spoken to her — a name: “You are ,” she said, because she declared, “!”That’s why the well is called . It’s still there, between Kadesh and Bered.Hagar gave Abram a son, and — the one Hagar had given birth to — Ishmael.Abram was when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.