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1 Sarai pak manželka Abramova jemu nerodila; a měla děvku Egyptskou, jménem Agar.

2 I řekla Sarai Abramovi: Aj, nyní Hospodin zavřel život můj, abych nerodila; vejdi, prosím, k děvce mé, zda bych aspoň z ní mohla míti syny. I povolil Abram řeči Sarai.

3 Tedy vzavši Sarai manželka Abramova Agar Egyptskou děvku svou, po desíti letech, jakž bydliti počal Abram v zemi Kananejské, dala ji Abramovi muži svému za ženu.

4 I všel k Agar, kterážto počala. Viduci pak ona, že počala, zlehčila sobě paní svou.

5 I řekla Sarai Abramovi: Křivdou mou tys vinen; já jsem dala děvku svou v lůno tvé, kterážto viduci, že počala, zlehčila mne sobě. Sudiž Hospodin mezi mnou a mezi tebou.

6 I řekl Abram k Sarai: Aj, děvka tvá v moci tvé; učiň s ní, cožť se za dobré vidí. Tedy trápila ji Sarai, a ona utekla od ní.

7 Našel ji pak anděl Hospodinův u studnice vody na poušti, u studnice té, kteráž jest při cestě Sur.

8 A řekl: Agar, děvko Sarai, odkud jdeš, a kam se béřeš? I řekla: Od tváři Sarai paní své já utíkám.

9 Tedy řekl jí anděl Hospodinův: Navrať se ku paní své, a pokoř se pod ruku její.

10 Opět řekl anděl Hospodinův: Velice rozmnožím símě tvé, aniž bude moci sečteno býti pro množství.

11 Potom také řekl anděl Hospodinův: Aj, ty jsi těhotná, a tudíž porodíš syna, a nazůveš jméno jeho Izmael; nebo uslyšel Hospodin trápení tvé.

12 Budeť pak lítý člověk; ruce jeho proti všechněm, a ruce všech proti němu; a před tváří všech bratří svých bydliti bude.

13 I nazvala Agar jméno Hospodinovo, kterýž mluvil jí: Ty jsi silný Bůh vidění; nebo řekla: Zdaliž teď také nevidím po tom, kterýž mne viděl?

14 Protož nazvala studnici tu studnicí Živého vidoucího mne. Aj, ta jest mezi Kádes a Barad.

15 Porodila pak Agar Abramovi syna; a nazval Abram jméno syna svého, kteréhož porodila Agar, Izmael.

16 Abram pak byl v osmdesáti šesti letech, když mu porodila Agar Izmaele.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1890

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1890. Genesis 16

1. And Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no child. And she had an Egyptian servant-girl, and her name was Hagar.

2. And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, now, Jehovah has prevented me from bearing; go in now to my servant-girl; perhaps I shall be built up from her; and Abram hearkened to Sarai's voice.

3. And Sarai, Abram's wife (uxor), took Hagar her Egyptian servant-girl, after Abram had been dwelling ten years in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to Abram her husband (vir) as his wife (mulier).

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

5. And Sarai said to Abram, May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I am despised in her eyes. May Jehovah judge between me and you!

6. And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your servant-girl is in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes. And Sarai humiliated her, and she fled from her face.

7. And the angel of Jehovah found her near a spring of water in the desert, near the spring on the road to Shur.

8. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant-girl, where are you coming from, and where are you going? And she said, From the face of Sarai my mistress I am fleeing.

9. And the angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and humble yourself beneath her hands.

10. And the angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply your seed greatly and it will not be numbered for multitude.

11. And the angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, you are with child, and you will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael because Jehovah has hearkened to your affliction.

12. And he will be a wild-ass man; his hand will be against all, and the hand of all against him; and he will dwell in opposition to 1 all his brothers.

13. And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, You are a God who sees me; for she said, Have I not also here seen after Him who sees me?

14. Therefore she called the spring, The spring of the Living One who sees me; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bared.

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

16. And Abram was a son of eighty-six years when Hagar bore Ishmael for Abram.

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The subject in this chapter is the first rational with the Lord which was conceived from the influx of the Internal Man into the External Man's affection for knowledge. The Internal Man is Abram, while the External Man's affection for knowledge is Hagar the Egyptian servant-girl; and the rational born from these two is Ishmael. The nature of this rational is described, and further on, in Chapter 21, it is said that it was 'driven out of the house' after the Lord's Divine Rational represented by Isaac had been born.

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