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Now Sarai, Abram 's wife , had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar .
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And Sarai said to Abram , See , the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said .
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So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan , Sarai took Hagar , her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife .
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And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.
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And Sarai said to Abram , May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.
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And Abram said , The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.
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And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur .
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And he said , Hagar , Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going ? And she said , I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.
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And the angel said to her, Go back , and put yourself under her authority.
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And the angel of the Lord said , Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
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And the angel of the Lord said , See , you are with child and will give birth to a son , to whom you will give the name Ishmael , because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.
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And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers .
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And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name , You are a God who is seen ; for she said , Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?
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So that fountain was named, fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered .
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And Hagar gave birth to a child , the son of Abram , to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael .
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Abram was eighty -six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael .