Bereshis 16

Orthodox Jewish Bible

16 Now Sarai Avram’s isha bore him no children; and she had a shifchah, an Egyptian, whose shem was Hagar.

² And Sarai said unto Avram, Hinei now, Hashem hath restrained me from bearing; go now in unto my shifchah; it may be that I may build family by her. And Avram paid heed to the voice of Sarai.

³ And Sarai Avram’s isha took Hagar her shifchah the Egyptian, after Avram had dwelt ten years in Eretz Kena’an, and gave her to her husband Avram to be his isha.

⁴ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her gevirah was despised in her eyes.

⁵ And Sarai said unto Avram, My wrong be upon thee; I have given my shifchah unto thy kheyk; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes; Hashem judge between me and thee.

⁶ But Avram said unto Sarai, Hinei, thy shifchah is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her face.

⁷ And the Malach Hashem found her by a spring of mayim in the midbar, near the spring on the road to Shur.

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s shifchah, from where camest thou? And where wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my gevirah Sarai.

⁹ And the Malach Hashem said unto her, Return to thy gevirah, and submit thyself under her hands.

¹⁰ And the Malach Hashem said unto her, I will multiply thy zera exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹¹ And the Malach Hashem said unto her, See, thou art with child and shalt bear ben, and shalt call shmo Yishmael; because Hashem shema thy oni (misery).

¹² And he will be a pere adam; his yad will be against kol, and kol yad against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

¹³ And she called the Shem of Hashem Who spoke unto her, El Roi (G-d Who Sees); for she said, Have I also here seen after Him that seeth me?

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; hinei, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Avram ben; and Avram called shem bno, which Hagar bore, Yishmael (Ishmael).

¹⁶ And Avram was fourscore and six shanah when Hagar bore Yishmael to Avram.