16:1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar
16:2 so she said to Abram, The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
16:3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
16:4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.
16:6 Your servant is in your hands, Abram said. Do with her whatever you think best. Then Sarai ill-treated Hagar so she fled from her.
16:7 The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
16:8 And he said, Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going? I’m running away from my mistress Sarai, she answered.
16:9 Then the angel of the LORD told her, Go back to your mistress and submit to her.
16:10 The angel added, I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.
16:11 The angel of the LORD also said to her: You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, [Ishmael means God hears.] for the LORD has heard of your misery.
16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility towards [Or live to the east of] all his brothers.
16:13 She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: You are the God who sees me, for she said, I have now seen [Or seen the back of] the One who sees me.
16:14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi [Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.] it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.