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## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### The Birth of Ishmael
[[#Verse 01.]] Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.Â
[[#Verse 02.]] So Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.
[[#Verse 03.]] So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife.Â
[[#Verse 04.]] He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.Â
[[#Verse 05.]] Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! I gave my servant into your embrace, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the Lord judge between you and me!”
[[#Verse 06.]] Abram said to Sarai, “Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.
[[#Verse 07.]] The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness—the spring that is along the road to Shur.Â
[[#Verse 08.]] He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.”
[[#Verse 09.]] Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.Â
[[#Verse 10.]] I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the angel of the Lord added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.”Â
[[#Verse 11.]] Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans.
[[#Verse 12.]] He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”
[[#Verse 13.]] So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”Â
[[#Verse 14.]] That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)
[[#Verse 15.]] So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.Â
[[#Verse 16.]] (Now Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)
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