nsb - Genesis:16

nsb@Genesis:16:1 @ Sarai, Abrams wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

nsb@Genesis:16:2 @ She said to Abram: »Jehovah 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.

nsb@Genesis:16:3 @ After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife.

nsb@Genesis:16:4 @ Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

nsb@Genesis:16:5 @ Then Sarai said to Abram: »You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May Jehovah judge between you and me.«

nsb@Genesis:16:6 @ »Your servant is in your hands,« Abram said. »Do with her whatever you think best.« Then Sarai mistreated Hagar. So she ran away from her.

nsb@Genesis:16:7 @ The angel of Jehovah found Hagar near a spring in the desert. It was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

nsb@Genesis:16:8 @ He said: »Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?« »I am running away from my mistress Sarai,« she answered.

nsb@Genesis:16:9 @ Then the angel of Jehovah told her: »Go back to your mistress and submit to her.

nsb@Genesis:16:10 @ »I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.«

nsb@Genesis:16:11 @ Jehovahs angel also said: »You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael. Jehovah has heard of your misery.

nsb@Genesis:16:12 @ »He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyones hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers.«

nsb@Genesis:16:13 @ She called the name of Jehovah, who spoke to her: »You are the God who sees me, for she said, I have not seen the one who sees me."

nsb@Genesis:16:14 @ That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. It is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

nsb@Genesis:16:15 @ Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

nsb@Genesis:16:16 @ Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.