Genesis 16 — FBV
16Verse 1Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't been able to have any children for him. However, she owned a female Egyptian slave named Hagar,Verse 2so Sarai said to Abram, “Please listen to me. The Lord hasn't let me have any children. So please go and sleep with my slave. Maybe I can have a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai had suggested.Verse 3So Sarai, Abram's wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband as his wife. Abram had been living in the land of Canaan for ten years when this happened.Verse 4Abram slept with Hagar and she became pregnant. When she realized she was pregnant, she treated her mistress with contempt.+Verse 5Then Sarai complained to Abram, “What I'm suffering is all your doing! I gave you my servant to sleep with, and now that she knows she's pregnant, she treats me with contempt. May the Lord decide who's at fault—you or me!”Verse 6“Listen, she's your slave!” Abram replied. “You can do whatever you want to her.” Sarai treated Hagar so badly that she ran away.+Verse 7The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert—the spring on the road to Shur.Verse 8He asked her, “Hagar, Sarai's slave—where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I'm running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.Verse 9“Go back to your mistress and do what she tells you,” the angel of the Lord told her.Verse 10Then he continued, “I will give you many, many descendants—in fact they'll be so many they can't be counted.”Verse 11The angel of the Lord went on to tell her: “Listen! You're pregnant, and you will have a son. You are to name him Ishmael,+for the Lord has heard how you've suffered.Verse 12He'll be a wild donkey kind of man—he will fight with everyone, and everyone will fight with him. He will forever be fighting with his relatives.”Verse 13From then on Hagar called the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” because she said, “Here I saw the one who sees me.”Verse 14That's why the well+is called “the Well of the Living One who Sees Me.” It's still there, between Kadesh and Bered.Verse 15Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram. Abram named his son Ishmael.Verse 16Abram was 86 when Hagar had Ishmael.