Genesis 16

1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.Cross-references: Gen 11:30 · Gen 12:16 · Gen 15:2 · Gen 21:9 · Gen 21:12 · Gen 21:21 · +5 more

2Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · Gen 3:12 · Gen 3:17 · Gen 17:16 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 20:18 · +8 more

3Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.Cross-references: Gen 12:4 · Gen 16:5 · Gen 25:6 · Gen 28:9 · Gen 30:4 · Gen 30:9 · +6 more

4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:6 · 2Sam 6:16 · Prov 30:20 · Prov 30:23 · 1Cor 4:6 · 1Cor 13:4

5Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”Cross-references: Gen 31:53 · Ex 5:21 · 1Sam 24:12 · 2Chr 24:22 · Ps 7:8 · Ps 35:23 · +2 more

6But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.Cross-references: Gen 13:8 · Gen 24:10 · Ex 2:15 · Job 2:6 · Ps 106:41 · Prov 14:29 · +7 more

7Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.Cross-references: Gen 20:1 · Gen 21:17 · Gen 22:11 · Gen 22:15 · Gen 25:18 · Gen 31:11 · +3 more

8He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”Cross-references: Gen 3:9 · Gen 4:10 · Gen 16:1 · Gen 16:4 · 1Sam 26:19 · Eccl 10:4 · +3 more

9Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”Cross-references: Eccl 10:4 · Eph 5:21 · Eph 6:5 · Titus 2:9 · 1Pet 2:18 · 1Pet 5:5

10Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”Cross-references: Gen 17:20 · Gen 21:13 · Gen 21:16 · Gen 21:18 · Gen 22:15 · Gen 25:12 · +17 more

11Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.Cross-references: Gen 17:19 · Gen 29:32 · Gen 41:51 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 3:9 · +8 more

12He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”Cross-references: Gen 21:20 · Gen 25:18 · Gen 27:40 · Job 11:12 · Job 39:5

13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”Cross-references: Gen 16:7 · Gen 16:9 · Gen 22:14 · Gen 28:17 · Gen 31:42 · Gen 32:30 · +6 more

14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.Cross-references: Gen 14:7 · Gen 21:31 · Gen 24:62 · Gen 25:11 · Num 13:26

15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.Cross-references: Gen 16:11 · Gen 17:18 · Gen 17:20 · Gen 17:25 · Gen 21:9 · Gen 25:9 · +5 more

16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.