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Genesis 16 📜 📕 ↷
Hagar and Ishmael
1 SARAI therefore the wife of Abram had brought forth no children; but having an handmaid, an AEgyptian named Agar,📜💬📚
2 she said to her husband: Behold, our Lord hath closed me, that I might not bear; Go in unto my handmaid, if happily of her at the least I may have children. And when he agreed to her in this request,📜💬📚
3 she took Agar the AEgyptian her handmaid ten years after that they first dwelled in the land of Chanaan, and gave her unto her husband to wife.📜💬📚
4 Who did company with her, but she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.📜💬📚
5 And Sarai said to Abram: Thou doest unjustly against me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, who perceiving her self to be with child, despiseth me. Our Lord judge between me and thee.📜💬📚
6 To whom Abram making answer: Behold, saith he, thy handmaid is in thine own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. When Sarai therefore did afflict her, she ran away.📜💬📚
7 And an Angel of our Lord having found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,📜💬📚
8 he said to her: Agar, the handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? And whither goest thou? Who answered: From the face of Sarai my mistress do I fly.📜💬📚
9 And the Angel of our Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thy self under her hand.📜💬📚
10 And again: Multiplying, saith he, will I multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for the multitude thereof.📜💬📚
11 And again after that: Behold, saith he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thine affliction.📜💬📚
12 He shall be a wild man: his hand shall be against all men, and all men's hands against him; and over against all his brethren shall he pitch his tents.📜💬📚
13 And she called the name of our Lord that spake unto her: Thou the God which hast seen me. For she said: verily here have I seen the back parts of him that hast seen me.📜💬📚
14 Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cadesse and Barad.📜💬📚
15 And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: Who called his name Ismael.📜💬📚
16 Eighty and six years old was Abram when Agar brought him forth Ismael.📜💬📚
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