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| | Gen 16:1 | Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
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| | Gen 16:2 | So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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| | Gen 16:3 | After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
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| | Gen 16:4 | He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
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| | Gen 16:5 | And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the Lord judge between you and me."
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| | Gen 16:6 | But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight." So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.
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| | Gen 16:7 | Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
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| | Gen 16:8 | He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."
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| | Gen 16:9 | Then the angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority."
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| | Gen 16:10 | Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count."
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| | Gen 16:11 | The angel of the Lord said to her further, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.
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| | Gen 16:12 | "He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers."
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| | Gen 16:13 | Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees"; for she said, "Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?"
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| | Gen 16:14 | Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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| | Gen 16:15 | So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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| | Gen 16:16 | Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
