¹ Sarai, Abrams Weib, gebar ihm nichts. Sie hatte aber eine ägyptische Magd, die hieß Hagar.

² Und sie sprach zu Abram: Siehe, der HERR hat mich verschlossen, daß ich nicht gebären kann. Lieber, lege dich zu meiner Magd, ob ich doch vielleicht aus ihr mich bauen möge. Abram, der gehorchte der Stimme Sarais.

³ Da nahm Sarai, Abrams Weib, ihre ägyptische Magd, Hagar, und gab sie Abram, ihrem Mann, zum Weibe, nachdem sie zehn Jahre im Lande Kanaan gewohnet hatten.

⁴ Und er legte sich zu Hagar, die ward schwanger. Als sie nun sah, daß sie schwanger war, achtete sie ihre Frau geringe gegen sich.

⁵ Da sprach Sarai zu Abram: Du tust unrecht an mir. Ich habe meine Magd dir beigelegt; nun sie aber siehet, daß sie schwanger worden ist, muß ich geringe geachtet sein gegen ihr. Der HERR sei Richter zwischen mir und dir!

⁶ Abram aber sprach zu Sarai: Siehe deine Magd ist unter deiner Gewalt; tue mit ihr, wie dir's gefällt. Da sie nun Sarai wollte demütigen, floh sie von ihr.

⁷ Aber der Engel des HERRN fand sie bei einem Wasserbrunnen in der Wüste, nämlich bei dem Brunnen am Wege zu Sur.

⁸ Der sprach zu ihr: Hagar, Sarais Magd, wo kommst du her und wo willst du hin? Sie sprach: Ich bin von meiner Frau Sarai geflohen.

⁹ Und der Engel des HERRN sprach zu ihr: Kehre um wieder zu deiner Frau und demütige dich unter ihre Hand.

¹⁰ Und der Engel des HERRN sprach zu ihr: Ich will deinen Samen also mehren, daß er vor großer Menge nicht soll gezählet werden.

¹¹ Weiter sprach der Engel des HERRN zu ihr: Siehe, du bist schwanger worden und wirst einen Sohn gebären, des Namen sollst du Ismael heißen, darum daß der HERR dein Elend erhöret hat.

¹² Er wird ein wilder Mensch sein, seine Hand wider jedermann und jedermanns Hand wider ihn; und wird gegen allen seinen Brüdern wohnen.

¹³ Und sie hieß den Namen des HERRN, der mit ihr redete: Du, Gott, siehest mich. Denn sie sprach: Gewißlich hie habe ich gesehen den, der mich hernach angesehen hat.

¹⁴ Darum hieß sie den Brunnen einen Brunnen des Lebendigen, der mich angesehen hat; welcher Brunnen ist zwischen Kades und Bared.

¹⁵ Und Hagar gebar Abram einen Sohn; und Abram hieß den Sohn, den ihm Hagar gebar, Ismael.

¹⁶ Und Abram war sechsundachtzig Jahre alt, da ihm Hagar den Ismael gebar.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

² I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

³ Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

⁴ "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

⁵ Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

⁶ I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

⁷ I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

⁸ I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

⁹ God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

¹⁰ This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

¹¹ You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

¹² He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

¹³ He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

¹⁴ The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

¹⁵ God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

¹⁶ I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

¹⁸ Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

¹⁹ God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

²¹ But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

²² When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

²³ Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

²⁴ Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

²⁵ Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

²⁶ In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

²⁷ All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.