¹ And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

² And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant: it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

³ And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.

⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee!

⁶ And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face.

⁷ And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

⁹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

¹⁰ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹¹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath hearkened to thy affliction.

¹² And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.

¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, Thou art the ùGod who reveals himself, for she said, Also here have I seen after he has revealed himself.

¹⁴ Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

¹⁶ And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

¹ Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

² but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

⁴ but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

⁵ that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship.

⁶ But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁷ So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

⁸ But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

⁹ but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

¹⁰ Ye observe days and months and times and years.

¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

¹² Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

¹³ But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

¹⁴ and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.

¹⁶ So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

¹⁷ They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

¹⁸ But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you --

¹⁹ my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

²⁰ and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

²¹ Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.

²³ But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.

²⁴ Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.

²⁵ For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;

²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

²⁷ For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband.

²⁸ But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

²⁹ But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

³⁰ But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.

³¹ So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but [children] of the free woman.