Thematic Bible
Genesis 16:1 (show verse)
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name [was] Hagar.
Genesis 16:2 (show verse)
And Sarai said to Abram, "Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps {I will have children by her}." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:3 (show verse)
Then Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.
Genesis 16:4 (show verse)
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And [when] she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.
Genesis 16:5 (show verse)
And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm [be] upon you. {I had my servant sleep with you}, and [when] she saw that she had conceived, {she no longer respected me}. May Yahweh judge between me and you!"
Genesis 16:6 (show verse)
And Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your servant [is] {under your authority}. Do to her that which [is] good in your eyes." And Sarai mistreated her, and she fled from her presence.
Genesis 16:7 (show verse)
And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur.
Genesis 16:8 (show verse)
And he said to Hagar, the servant of Sarai, "{From where} have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of Sarai my mistress."
Genesis 16:9 (show verse)
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under {her authority}."
Genesis 16:10 (show verse)
And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "{I will greatly multiply} your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for [their] abundance."
Genesis 16:11 (show verse)
And the angel of Yahweh said to her: "Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering.
Genesis 16:12 (show verse)
And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand [will be] against everyone, and the hand of everyone [will be] against him, and he will live {in hostility with all his brothers}."
Genesis 16:13 (show verse)
So she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You [are] El-Roi," for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me."
Genesis 16:14 (show verse)
Therefore the well was called Beer-Lahai-Roi; behold, it [is] between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 16:15 (show verse)
And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.
Genesis 16:16 (show verse)
And Abram [was] eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.