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16 Saraí kona Abrams ól honum ekki börn. En hún hafði egypska ambátt, sem hét Hagar.

Og Saraí sagði við Abram: "Heyrðu, Drottinn hefir varnað mér barngetnaðar. Gakk því inn til ambáttar minnar, vera má að hún afli mér afkvæmis." Og Abram hlýddi orðum Saraí.

Saraí, kona Abrams, tók Hagar hina egypsku, ambátt sína, er Abram hafði búið tíu ár í Kanaanlandi, og gaf manni sínum Abram hana fyrir konu.

Og hann gekk inn til Hagar, og hún varð þunguð. En er hún vissi, að hún var með barni, fyrirleit hún húsmóður sína.

Þá sagði Saraí við Abram: "Sá óréttur, sem ég verð að þola, bitni á þér! Ég hefi gefið ambátt mína þér í faðm, en er hún nú veit, að hún er með barni, fyrirlítur hún mig. Drottinn dæmi milli mín og þín!"

En Abram sagði við Saraí: "Sjá, ambátt þín er á þínu valdi. Gjör þú við hana sem þér gott þykir." Þá þjáði Saraí hana, svo að hún flýði í burtu frá henni.

Þá fann engill Drottins hana hjá vatnslind í eyðimörkinni, hjá lindinni á veginum til Súr.

Og hann mælti: "Hagar, ambátt Saraí, hvaðan kemur þú og hvert ætlar þú að fara?" Hún svaraði: "Ég er á flótta frá Saraí, húsmóður minni."

Og engill Drottins sagði við hana: "Hverf þú heim aftur til húsmóður þinnar og gef þig undir hennar vald."

10 Engill Drottins sagði við hana: "Ég mun margfalda afkvæmi þitt, svo að það verði eigi talið fyrir fjölda sakir."

11 Engill Drottins sagði við hana: "Sjá, þú ert þunguð og munt son fæða. Hans nafn skalt þú kalla Ísmael, því að Drottinn hefir heyrt kveinstafi þína.

12 Hann mun verða maður ólmur sem villiasni, hönd hans mun vera uppi á móti hverjum manni og hvers manns hönd uppi á móti honum, og hann mun búa andspænis öllum bræðrum sínum."

13 Og hún nefndi Drottin, sem við hana talaði, "Þú ert Guð, sem sér." Því að hún sagði: "Ætli ég hafi einnig hér horft á eftir honum, sem hefir séð mig?"

14 Þess vegna heitir brunnurinn Beer-lahaj-róí, en hann er á milli Kades og Bered.

15 Hagar ól Abram son, og Abram nefndi son sinn, sem Hagar ól honum, Ísmael.

16 En Abram var áttatíu og sex ára gamall, þegar Hagar ól honum Ísmael.

Hagar and Ishmael

16 Now Sarai,(A) Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.(B) But she had an Egyptian slave(C) named Hagar;(D) so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.(E) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”(F)

Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in Canaan(G) ten years,(H) Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar,(I) and she conceived.

When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.(J) Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”(K)

“Your slave is in your hands,(L)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated(M) Hagar; so she fled from her.

The angel of the Lord(N) found Hagar near a spring(O) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.(P) And he said, “Hagar,(Q) slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”(R)

“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”(S)

11 The angel of the Lord(T) also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.(U)
You shall name him(V) Ishmael,[a](W)
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.(X)
12 He will be a wild donkey(Y) of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
    toward[b] all his brothers.(Z)

13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,(AA)” for she said, “I have now seen[c] the One who sees me.”(AB) 14 That is why the well(AC) was called Beer Lahai Roi[d];(AD) it is still there, between Kadesh(AE) and Bered.

15 So Hagar(AF) bore Abram a son,(AG) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(AH) to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old(AI) when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears.
  2. Genesis 16:12 Or live to the east / of
  3. Genesis 16:13 Or seen the back of
  4. Genesis 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.

16 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.

But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

13 And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.