¹ واما ساراي امرأة ابرام فلم تلد له. وكانت لها جارية مصرية اسمها هاجر.

² فقالت ساراي لابرام هوذا الرب قد امسكني عن الولادة. ادخل على جاريتي. لعلي أرزق منها بنين. فسمع ابرام لقول ساراي.

³ فاخذت ساراي امرأة ابرام هاجر المصرية جاريتها من بعد عشر سنين لاقامة ابرام في ارض كنعان واعطتها لابرام رجلها زوجة له.

⁴ فدخل على هاجر فحبلت. ولما رأت انها حبلت صغرت مولاتها في عينيها.

⁵ فقالت ساراي لابرام ظلمي عليك. انا دفعت جاريتي الى حضنك. فلما رأت انها حبلت صغرت في عينيها. يقضي الرب بيني وبينك.

⁶ فقال ابرام لساراي هوذا جاريتك في يدك. افعلي بها ما يحسن في عينيك. فاذلّتها ساراي. فهربت من وجهها

⁷ فوجدها ملاك الرب على عين الماء في البرية. على العين التي في طريق شور.

⁸ وقال يا هاجر جارية ساراي من اين أتيت والى اين تذهبين. فقالت انا هاربة من وجه مولاتي ساراي.

⁹ فقال لها ملاك الرب ارجعي الى مولاتك واخضعي تحت يديها.

¹⁰ وقال لها ملاك الرب تكثيرا اكثر نسلك فلا يعد من الكثرة.

¹¹ وقال لها ملاك الرب ها انت حبلى فتلدين ابنا. وتدعين اسمه اسماعيل لان الرب قد سمع لمذلّتك.

¹² وانه يكون انسانا وحشيّا. يده على كل واحد ويد كل واحد عليه. وامام جميع اخوته يسكن.

¹³ فدعت اسم الرب الذي تكلم معها انت ايل رئي. لانها قالت أههنا ايضا رأيت بعد رؤية.

¹⁴ لذلك دعيت البئر بئر لحي رئي. ها هي بين قادش وبارد

¹⁵ فولدت هاجر لابرام ابنا. ودعا ابرام اسم ابنه الذي ولدته هاجر اسماعيل.

¹⁶ وكان ابرام ابن ست وثمانين سنة لما ولدت هاجر اسماعيل لابرام

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

² Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

³ Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

⁴ He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

⁵ Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."

⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

⁷ The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

⁸ He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

⁹ The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

¹⁰ The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

¹¹ The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

¹² He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."

¹³ She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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