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Génesis 16

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1 Y Sarai, mujer de Abram no le daba hijos; y ella tenía una sierva egipcia, que se llamaba Agar.

2 Dijo, pues, Sarai a Abram: He aquí ahora el SEÑOR me ha vedado de dar a luz; te ruego que entres a mi sierva; por ventura tendré hijos de ella. Y oyó Abram al dicho de Sarai.

3 Y Sarai, la mujer de Abram, tomó a Agar su sierva egipcia, al cabo de diez años que había habitado Abram en la tierra de Canaán, y la dio a Abram su marido por mujer.

4 Y él entró a Agar, la cual concibió; y cuando vio que había concebido, miraba con desprecio a su señora.

5 Entonces Sarai dijo a Abram: Mi afrenta es sobre ti; yo puse mi sierva en tu seno, y viéndose embarazada, me mira con desprecio; juzgue el SEÑOR entre mí y ti.

6 Y respondió Abram a Sarai: He ahí tu sierva en tu mano, haz con ella lo que bien te pareciere. Entonces Sarai la afligió, y ella huyó de su presencia.

7 Y la halló el ángel del SEÑOR junto a una fuente de agua en el desierto, junto a la fuente que está en el camino del Sur.

8 Y le dijo: Agar, sierva de Sarai, ¿de dónde vienes tú, y a dónde vas? Y ella respondió: Huyo de delante de Sarai, mi señora.

9 Y le dijo el ángel del SEÑOR: Vuélvete a tu señora, y humíllate bajo su mano.

10 Le dijo también el ángel del SEÑOR: Multiplicaré tanto tu simiente, que no será contada por la multitud.

11 Y le dijo aun el ángel del SEÑOR: He aquí que has concebido, y darás a luz un hijo, y llamarás su nombre Ismael, porque ha oído el SEÑOR tu aflicción.

12 Y él será hombre fiero; su mano contra todos, y las manos de todos contra él, y delante de todos sus hermanos habitará.

13 Entonces ella llamó el nombre del SEÑOR que hablaba con ella, Atta el roi, Tú eres el Dios de la vista ; porque dijo: ¿No he visto también aquí las espaldas del que me vio?

14 Por lo cual llamó al pozo, pozo del Viviente que me ve. He aquí está entre Cades y Bered.

15 Y Agar dio a luz un hijo a Abram, y llamó Abram el nombre de su hijo que le dio Agar, Ismael.

16 Y era Abram de edad de ochenta y seis años, cuando Agar dio a luz a Ismael.

   

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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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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.