Sarai and Hagar
1 Now (A)Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had (B)an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. (C)Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will (a)obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3 After Abram had (b)lived (D)ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
5 And Sarai said to Abram, “(E)May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your (c)arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her (d)sight. (F)May the Lord judge between (e)you and me.”
6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your (f)power; do to her what is good in your (g)sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and (G)she fled from her presence.
7 Now (H)the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to (I)Shur.
8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, (J)where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
9 Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself (h)to her authority.”
10 Moreover, the (K)angel of the Lord said to her, “(L)I will greatly multiply your (i)descendants so that (j)they will be too many to count.”
11 The angel of the Lord said to her further,
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Footnotes:
a.
Genesis 16:2: ['Lit ', be built from her]
b.
Genesis 16:3: ['Lit ', dwelt]
c.
Genesis 16:5: ['Lit ', bosom]
d.
Genesis 16:5: ['Lit ', eyes]
e.
Genesis 16:5: ['Lit ', me and you]
f.
Genesis 16:6: ['Lit ', hand]
g.
Genesis 16:6: ['Lit ', eyes]
h.
Genesis 16:9: ['Lit ', under her hands]
i.
Genesis 16:10: ['Lit ', seed]
j.
Genesis 16:10: ['Or ', it shall not be counted for multitude]
k.
Genesis 16:11: ['I.e. God hears']
l.
Genesis 16:11: ['Lit ', has heard]
m.
Genesis 16:12: ['Lit ', dwell]
n.
Genesis 16:12: ['Lit ', before the face of, '; or ', in defiance of]
o.
Genesis 16:13: ['Or ', You, God, see me]
p.
Genesis 16:13: ['Heb ', Elroi]
q.
Genesis 16:13: ['Lit ', seen here after the one who saw me]
r.
Genesis 16:14: ['I.e. the well of the living one who sees me']
s.
Genesis 16:16: ['Lit ', Abram]