Genesis 16

16Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't yet produced a child. She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar.H8297H87H802H3205H3808H3205H8198H4713H8034H19042Sarai said to Abram, "GOD has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.H8297H559H87H3068H6113H3205H935H8198H194H1129H87H8085H6963H82973So Sarai, Abram's wife, took her Egyptian maid Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. Abram had been living ten years in Canaan when this took place.H8297H87H802H3947H1904H8198H4713H7093H87H3427H6235H8141H776H3667H5414H376H87H8024He slept with Hagar and she got pregnant. When she learned she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.H935H1904H2029H7200H2029H1404H7043H58695Sarai told Abram, "It's all your fault that I'm suffering this abuse. I put my maid in bed with you and the minute she knows she's pregnant, she treats me like I'm nothing. May GOD decide which of us is right."H8297H559H87H2555H5414H8198H2436H7200H2029H7043H5869H3068H81996"You decide," said Abram. "Your maid is your business." Sarai was abusive to Hagar and she ran away.H87H559H8297H8198H3027H6213H2896H5869H8297H6031H1272H64407An angel of GOD found her beside a spring in the desert; it was the spring on the road to Shur.H4397H3068H4672H5869H4325H4057H5869H1870H77938He said, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, what are you doing here?" She said, "I'm running away from Sarai my mistress."H559H1904H8297H8198H335H935H3212H559H1272H6440H1404H82979The angel of GOD said, "Go back to your mistress. Put up with her abuse."H4397H3068H559H7725H1404H6031H302710He continued, "I'm going to give you a big family, children past counting.H4397H3068H559H7235H2233H7235H5608H723011From this pregnancy, you'll get a son: Name him Ishmael; for GOD heard you, GOD answered you.H4397H3068H559H2009H2030H3205H1121H7121H8034H3458H3068H8085H604012He'll be a bucking bronco of a man, a real fighter, fighting and being fought, Always stirring up trouble, always at odds with his family."H6501H120H3027H3027H7931H6440H25113She answered GOD by name, praying to the God who spoke to her, "You're the God who sees me!" "Yes! He saw me; and then I saw him!"H7121H8034H3068H1696H410H7210H559H1988H7200H310H721014That's how that desert spring got named "God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring." That spring is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.H875H7121H883H2416H6946H126015Hagar gave Abram a son. Abram named him Ishmael.H1904H3205H87H1121H87H7121H1121H8034H1904H3205H345816Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave him his son, Ishmael.H87H8084H8141H8337H8141H1121H1904H3205H3458H87