OET-RV GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
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16 Now Avram’s wife Saray (Sarai) hadn’t been able to give him any children, but she had an Mitsri (Egyptian) slave named Hagar, 2 so Saray said to Avram, “Listen, Yahweh has prevented me from having children so please sleep with my slave. Perhaps I can have a family through her.” Avram agreed to what Saray had suggested. 3 So Saray, the wife of Avram, took Hagar, her Mitsri slave, after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena’an (Canaan), and gave her to Avram her husband as a wife for him. 4 So he slept with Hagar and she got pregnant, but once she realised that she began to despise her mistress.
5 So Saray complained to Avram, “This is all your fault. I let you sleep with my slave, but now that she’s pregnant she looks down on me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
6 “Listen,” Avram replied, “She’s your slave to do what she’s told. Do whatever you think best.” So Saray started mistreating Hagar, and so she ran away.
7 Then Yahweh’s messenger found her in the wilderness at a spring—the spring beside the road to Shur, 8 and asked her, “Hagar, Saray’s slave, where have you come from and where are you going?”
“I am running away from Saray, my mistress,” she replied.
9 Then Yahweh’s messenger instructed her, “Return to your mistress and do whatever she tells you,” 10 then added, “I’ll give you so many descendants that they won’t even be able to be counted because there’ll be so many.” 11 Then the messenger told her,
“Listen here: you’re pregnant and will give birth to a son,
and you’ll name him ‘Yishmael’ (Ishmael) (which means ‘God hears’)
because Yahweh has heard your cries of misery.
12 He’ll be a wild donkey of a man
and he’ll be hostile to everyone
and everyone will be against him.
He’ll live right in front of his brothers.”
13 Then Hagar realised that it was Yahweh who had spoken to her and said, “You’re ‘The god who sees me’,” because she thought, “Did I really just see the back of the god who sees me?” 14 So that’s why that well between Kadesh and Bered is now called ‘The well of the living one who sees me’.
15 Then Hagar gave birth to a son for Avram, and Avram named him Yishmael (Ishmael).[ref] 16 Avram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Yishmael for him.
OET-RV GEN Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42 C43 C44 C45 C46 C47 C48 C49 C50