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Chapter 16
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:1 | Sarai, Abram's wife, was not able to have children. She owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar. | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:2 | So Sarai said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Maybe I can build a family through her." Abram agreed with Sarai. | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:3 | After Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:4 | He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to be disrespectful to Sarai, her owner. | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:5 | So Sarai complained to Abram, "I'm being treated unfairly! And it's your fault! I know that I gave my slave to you, but now that she's pregnant, she's being disrespectful to me. May the LORD decide who is right--you or me." | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:6 | Abram answered Sarai, "Here, she's your slave. Do what you like with her." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar so much that she ran away. | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:7 | The Messenger of the LORD found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the way to Shur. | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:8 | He said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from my owner Sarai." | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:9 | The Messenger of the LORD said to her, "Go back to your owner, and place yourself under her authority." | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:10 | The Messenger of the LORD also said to her, "I will give you many descendants. No one will be able to count them because there will be so many." | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:11 | Then the Messenger of the LORD said to her, "You are pregnant, and you will give birth to a son. You will name him Ishmael God Hears, because the LORD has heard your cry of distress. | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:12 | He will be as free and wild as an untamed donkey. He will fight with everyone, and everyone will fight with him. He will have conflicts with all his relatives." | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:13 | Hagar named the LORD, who had been speaking to her, "You Are the God Who Watches Over Me." She said, "This is the place where I watched the one who watches over me." | |
| Gene | GodsWord | 16:14 | This is why the well is named Beer Lahai Roi Well of the Living One Who Watches Over Me. It is still there between Kadesh and Bered. | |