Genesis 16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Hebrew Names version (HNV)
Genesis 16

¹ Now Sarai, Avram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

² Sarai said to Avram, *See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.* Avram listened to the voice of Sarai.

³ Sarai, Avram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena`an, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.

⁴ He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

⁵ Sarai said to Avram, *This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you.*

⁶ But Avram said to Sarai, *Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.* Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

⁷ The angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

⁸ He said, *Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?* She said, *I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.*

⁹ The angel of the LORD said to her, *Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.*

¹⁰ The angel of the LORD said to her, *I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.*

¹¹ The angel of the LORD said to her, *Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Yishma'el, because the LORD has heard your affliction.

¹² He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.*

¹³ She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, *You are a God who sees,* for she said, *Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?*

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ Hagar bore a son for Avram. Avram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Yishma'el.

¹⁶ Avram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Yishma'el to Avram.