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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar,
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and Sarai said to Abram, You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave-girl; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.
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He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
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Then Sarai said to Abram, May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my slave-girl to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!
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But Abram said to Sarai, Your slave-girl is in your power; do to her as you please. Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she ran away from her.
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The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
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And he said, Hagar, slave-girl of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going? She said, I am running away from my mistress Sarai.
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The angel of the Lord said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit to her.
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The angel of the Lord also said to her, I will so greatly multiply your offspring that they cannot be counted for multitude.
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And the angel of the Lord said to her, Now you have conceived and shall bear a son; you shall call him Ishmael, for the Lord has given heed to your affliction.
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He shall be a wild ass of a man, with his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; and he shall live at odds with all his kin.
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So she named the Lord who spoke to her, You are El-roi; for she said, Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?
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Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
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Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
