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1 Sarai, Abram's wife, had no children, but she had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar.

2 Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the Lord has not allowed me to have children, so have sexual relations with my slave girl. If she has a child, maybe I can have my own family through her." Abram did what Sarai said.

3 It was after he had lived ten years in Canaan that Sarai gave Hagar to her husband Abram. (Hagar was her slave girl from Egypt.)

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4 Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress Sarai badly.

5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "This is your fault. I gave my slave girl to you, and when she became pregnant, she began to treat me badly. Let the Lord decide who is right -- you or me."

6 But Abram said to Sarai, "You are Hagar's mistress. Do anything you want to her." Then Sarai was hard on Hagar, and Hagar ran away.

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7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the desert, by the road to Shur.

8 The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

9 The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."

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10 The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted."

11 The angel added, "You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cries.

12 Ishmael will be like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will attack all his brothers."

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13 The slave girl gave a name to the Lord who spoke to her: "You are 'God who sees me,'" because she said to herself, "Have I really seen God who sees me?"

14 So the well there, between Kadesh and Bered, was called Beer Lahai Roi.

15 Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named him Ishmael.

16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

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