## Sarai and Hagar 

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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no _children_, and she had an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar. 

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So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, Yahweh has shut my _womb_ from bearing _children_. Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 

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And after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant-woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. 

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So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became contemptible in her sight. 

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And Sarai said to Abram, "May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became contemptible in her sight. May Yahweh judge between you and me." 

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But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant-woman is in your hand; do to her what is good in your sight." So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence. 

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Now the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. 

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And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's servant-woman, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai." 

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Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hands." 

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Moreover, the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed so that they will be too many to be counted." 

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And the angel of Yahweh said to her further, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because Yahweh has heard your affliction. 

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And he will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand _will be_ against everyone, And everyone's hand _will be_ against him; And he will dwell in the face of all his brothers." 

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Then she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees"; for she said, "Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?" 

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Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 

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So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 

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Now Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.