Genesis

¹ She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar.

² Sarai said to Abram, "God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

³ So Sarai, Abram's wife, took her Egyptian maid Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. Abram had been living ten years in Canaan when this took place.

⁴ He slept with Hagar and she got pregnant. When she learned she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.

⁵ Sarai told Abram, "It's all your fault that I'm suffering this abuse. I put my maid in bed with you and the minute she knows she's pregnant, she treats me like I'm nothing. May God decide which of us is right."

⁶ Sarai was abusive to Hagar and she ran away.

⁷ An angel of God found her beside a spring in the desert; it was the spring on the road to Shur.

⁸ She said, "I'm running away from Sarai my mistress."

⁹ The angel of God said, "Go back to your mistress. Put up with her abuse."

¹⁰ He continued, "I'm going to give you a big family, children past counting.

¹¹ for God heard you, God answered you.

¹² a real fighter, fighting and being fought, Always stirring up trouble, always at odds with his family."

¹³ "You're the God who sees me!" "Yes! He saw me; and then I saw him!"

¹⁴ That's how that desert spring got named "God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring." That spring is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ Hagar gave Abram a son. Abram named him Ishmael.

¹⁶ Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave him his son, Ishmael.