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创世记 16

¹ 亚伯兰的妻子撒莱不给他生儿女。撒莱有一个使女，名叫夏甲，是埃及人。

² 撒莱对亚伯兰说：耶和华使我不能生育。求你和我的使女同房，或者我可以因他得孩子(原文作被建立)。亚伯兰听从了撒莱的话。

³ 於是亚伯兰的妻子撒莱将使女埃及人夏甲给了丈夫为妾；那时亚伯兰在迦南已经住了十年。

⁴ 亚伯兰与夏甲同房，夏甲就怀了孕；他见自己有孕，就小看他的主母。

⁵ 撒莱对亚伯兰说：我因你受屈。我将我的使女放在你怀中，他见自己有了孕，就小看我。愿耶和华在你我中间判断。

⁶ 亚伯兰对撒莱说：使女在你手下，你可以随意待他。撒莱苦待他，他就从撒莱面前逃走了。

⁷ 耶和华的使者在旷野书珥路上的水泉旁遇见他，

⁸ 对他说：撒莱的使女夏甲，你从那里来？要往那里去？夏甲说：我从我的主母撒莱面前逃出来。

⁹ 耶和华的使者对他说：你回到你主母那里，服在他手下；

¹⁰ 又说：我必使你的後裔极其繁多，甚至不可胜数；

¹¹ 并说：你如今怀孕要生一个儿子，可以给他起名叫以实玛利，因为耶和华听见了你的苦情。(以实玛利就是神听见的意思)

¹² 他为人必像野驴。他的手要攻打人，人的手也要攻打他；他必住在众弟兄的东边。

¹³ 夏甲就称那对他说话的耶和华为看顾人的神。因而说：在这里我也看见那看顾我的麽？

¹⁴ 所以这井名叫庇耳拉海莱。这井正在加低斯和巴列中间。

¹⁵ 後来夏甲给亚伯兰生了一个儿子；亚伯兰给他起名叫以实玛利。

¹⁶ 夏甲给亚伯兰生以实玛利的时候，亚伯兰年八十六岁。

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Arcana Coelestia #2652

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2652. The son of Hagar the Egyptian. That this signifies into the merely human rational, and that “Hagar the Egyptian” is the affection of memory-knowledges, of which that rational was born as a mother, is evident from the signification of the “son,” namely Ishmael, as being the first rational which the Lord had-treated of in Genesis 16, where Hagar and Ishmael are the subject-also from his representation, and that of Hagar the Egyptian, his mother, explained under that chapter. (That the first or merely human rational in the Lord was conceived from the Divine celestial as a father, and born of the affection of memory-knowledges as a mother, may be seen above, n. 1895, 1896, 1902, 1910.)

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