# Genesis 16

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/16

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him children, and she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
2. Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I will build a family through her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3. Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.
4. He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; seeing that she was pregnant, she despised her mistress in her eyes.
5. Sarai said to Abram, "My wrong is upon you—I gave my maidservant into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was held in contempt in her sight; let Yahweh judge between me and you."
6. Abram said to Sarai, "See, your maidservant is under your control; do to her what seems right to you." Sarai mistreated her, and she fled from her presence.
7. The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
8. He said, "Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from before my mistress Sarai."
9. The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hands."
10. The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, so they will not be numbered for multitude."
11. The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and will bear a son; call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction."
12. He will be a wild man, his hand against all and the hand of all against him, and before all his brothers he will dwell.
13. She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Even here have I seen after he saw me."
14. That is why the well was named Beer-lahai-roi; look, it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
15. Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael to Abram.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/15.md)
[Genesis 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/17.md)

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