Thematic Bible
Genesis 16:1 (show verse)
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:2 (show verse)
And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:3 (show verse)
So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
Genesis 16:4 (show verse)
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
Genesis 16:5 (show verse)
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Genesis 16:6 (show verse)
But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
Genesis 16:7 (show verse)
The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:8 (show verse)
And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
Genesis 16:9 (show verse)
The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."
Genesis 16:10 (show verse)
The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."
Genesis 16:11 (show verse)
And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.
Genesis 16:12 (show verse)
He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."
Genesis 16:13 (show verse)
So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me."
Genesis 16:14 (show verse)
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 16:15 (show verse)
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Genesis 16:16 (show verse)
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.