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And Sarai, Abram 's wife , hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid , an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar ;
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and Sarai saith unto Abram , `Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid ; perhaps I am built up from her;' and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.
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And Sarai, Abram 's wife , taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid , at the end of the tenth year of Abram 's dwelling in the land of Canaan , and giveth her to Abram her husband , to him for a wife ,
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and he goeth in unto Hagar , and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes .
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And Sarai saith unto Abram , `My violence [is] for thee; I -- I have given mine handmaid into thy bosom , and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes ; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.'
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And Abram saith unto Sarai, `Lo, thine handmaid [is] in thine hand , do to her that which is good in thine eyes ;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence.
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And a messenger of Jehovah findeth her by the fountain of water in the wilderness , by the fountain in the way [to] Shur ,
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and he saith , `Hagar , Sarai's handmaid , whence hast thou come , and whither dost thou go ?' and she saith , `From the presence of Sarai, my mistress , I am fleeing .'
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And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Turn back unto thy mistress , and humble thyself under her hands ;'
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and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Multiplying I multiply thy seed , and it is not numbered from multitude;'
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and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Behold thou [art] conceiving, and bearing a son , and hast called his name Ishmael , for Jehovah hath hearkened unto thine affliction ;
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and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one , and every one 's hand against him -- and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.'
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And she calleth the name of Jehovah who is speaking unto her, `Thou [art], O God, my beholder;' for she said , `Even here have I looked behind my beholder?'
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therefore hath one called the well , `The well of the Living One, my beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered .
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And Hagar beareth to Abram a son ; and Abram calleth the name of his son , whom Hagar hath borne, Ishmael ;
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and Abram [is] a son of eighty and six years in Hagar's bearing Ishmael to Abram .