¹Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar. ²So Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.³So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife. ⁴He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai. ⁵Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! I gave my servant into your embrace, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the Lord judge between you and me!”⁶Abram said to Sarai, “Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai. ⁷The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness—the spring that is along the road to Shur. ⁸He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.” ⁹Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority. ¹⁰I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the angel of the Lord added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.” ¹¹Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans. ¹²He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.” ¹³So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”¹⁴That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.) ¹⁵So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael. ¹⁶(Now Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)