Genesis 16

LEB(i) 1 Now* Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, "Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps I will have children by her."* And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 Then* Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she* saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm be upon you. I had my servant sleep with you,* and when she saw that she had conceived, she no longer respected me.* May Yahweh judge between me and you!" 6 And Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your servant is under your authority.* Do to her that which is good in your eyes." And Sarai mistreated her, and she* fled from her presence. 7 And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur. 8 And he said to Hagar, the servant of Sarai, "From where* have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of Sarai my mistress." 9 Then* the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her authority."* 10 And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply* your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for their abundance." 11 And the angel of Yahweh said to her:
"Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering. 12 And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand will be against everyone, and the hand of everyone will be against him, and he will live in hostility with all his brothers."* 13 So* she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are El-Roi,"* for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me." 14 Therefore the well was called Beer-Lahai-Roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.