Genesis 16:1-16, Genesis 21:9-21 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Genesis 16:1-16

Sarai and Hagar

Now ^aSarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had ^ban Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. ^aPlease go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will ¹obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And after Abram had ¹lived ^aten 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. 4 So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became ¹contemptible in her sight. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “^aMay the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your ¹embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became ²contemptible in her ³sight. ^bMay Yahweh judge between ⁴you and me.” 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your ¹hand; do to her what is good in your ²sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and ^ashe fled from her presence.
7 Now ^athe angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to ^bShur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant-woman, ^awhere have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” 9 Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and ¹humble yourself under her hands.” 10 Moreover, the ^aangel of Yahweh said to her, “^bI will greatly multiply your seed so that ¹they will be too many to be counted.” 11 And the angel of Yahweh said to her further,

“Behold, you ¹are with child,

And you will bear a son;

And you shall call his name ²Ishmael,

Because ^aYahweh has heard your affliction.

And he will be a ^awild donkey of a man,

His hand will be against everyone,

And everyone’s hand will be against him;

And he will dwell ¹^bin the face of all his brothers.”

13 Then she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “¹You are ²a God who sees”; for she said, “^aHave I even ³remained alive here after seeing Him?” 14 Therefore the well was called ¹Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between ^aKadesh and Bered.
15 So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Now Abram was ^aeighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to ¹him.

Genesis 21:9-21

9 And Sarah saw ^athe son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, ¹^blaughing in jest. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “^aDrive out this maidservant and her son! The son of this maidservant shall not be an heir with my son, with Isaac.” 11 ^aAnd the matter ¹distressed Abraham greatly because of his son. 12 So God said to Abraham, “¹Do not be distressed because of the boy and your maidservant; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice, for ^athrough Isaac your seed shall be named. 13 And of ^athe son of the maidservant I will make a nation also, because he is your seed.” 14 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a ¹skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was finished, she ¹put the child under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me ¹see when the child dies.” And she sat opposite him and ^alifted up her voice and wept. 17 Then God ^aheard the voice of the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? ^bDo not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18 Arise, lift up the boy, and hold him by ¹the hand, ^afor I will make a great nation of him.” 19 Then God ^aopened her eyes, and she saw ^ba well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 ^aAnd God was with the boy, and he grew; and he ¹lived in the wilderness and was an archer. 21 ^aAnd he ¹lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.