Rodzaju 16

1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar. 2Sarai said to Abram, ‘the Lordhas denied me children; Take my slave-girl; maybe I will obtain children by her.’ Then Abram listened to her 3so she took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, after Abram had lived for ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife 4and Abram lay with Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. 5Sarai complained to Abram, ‘May the wrong I suffer be on you! I myself gave my slave-girl to you; and now that she sees that she has conceived, I am despised by her; may the Lordjudge between me and you.’ 6But Abram said to Sarai, ‘Your maid-servant is in your power, do to her whatever seems right to you.’ Then Sarai ill-treated her so that she fled from her presence. 7The messenger of the Lordfound her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring in the way to Shur. 8He said, ‘Hagar, Sarai’s slave-girl, where have you come from? And where are you going?’ She said, ‘I am fleeing from the presence of mistress Sarai.’ 9Then the messenger of the said Lordto her, ‘Return to your mistress and submit yourself to her authority.’ 10Moreover the messenger of the said Lordto her, ‘I will make your descendants so many that they can not be numbered because they are so numerous.’ 11The messenger of the Lordalso said to her, ‘You are pregnant, and will have a son; you must call him Ishmael God hears, because the Lordhas heard of your ill-treatment.’ 12He will be like a wild donkey, his hand against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he will live at odds with all his relatives. 13Then she called the name of the , Lordwho had spoken to her, El-roi (You are a God who sees me); for she said, ‘Have I seen God and am I still alive after I have looked upon him?’ 14Therefore the well is called Beer-lahai-roi, (it is between Kadesh and Bered) 15Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.