Genesis 16 : 1 (NCV)
Sarai, Abram's wife, had no children, but she had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar.
Genesis 16 : 2 (NCV)
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.
Genesis 16 : 3 (NCV)
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.)
Genesis 16 : 4 (NCV)
Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress Sarai badly.
Genesis 16 : 5 (NCV)
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."
Genesis 16 : 6 (NCV)
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.
Genesis 16 : 7 (NCV)
The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the desert, by the road to Shur.
Genesis 16 : 8 (NCV)
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."
Genesis 16 : 9 (NCV)
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."
Genesis 16 : 10 (NCV)
The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted."
Genesis 16 : 11 (NCV)
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.
Genesis 16 : 12 (NCV)
Ishmael will be like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will attack all his brothers."
Genesis 16 : 13 (NCV)
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?"
Genesis 16 : 14 (NCV)
So the well there, between Kadesh and Bered, was called Beer Lahai Roi.
Genesis 16 : 15 (NCV)
Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named him Ishmael.
Genesis 16 : 16 (NCV)
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

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