| New International Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; | 1Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. |
| 2so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said. | 2So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. |
| 3So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. | 3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife. |
| 4He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. | 4And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. |
| 5Then 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." | 5Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.” |
| 6"Your slave is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her. | 6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her. |
| 7The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. | 7Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur. |
| 8And he said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered. | 8“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied. |
| 9Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her." | 9So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.” |
| 10The angel added, "I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count." | 10Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.” |
| 11The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery. | 11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction. |
| 12He 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 toward all his brothers." | 12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” |
| 13She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me." | 13So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!” |
| 14That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered. | 14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered. |
| 15So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. | 15And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. |
| 16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael. | 16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him. |
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