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Then Sarai told Abram, “My suffering is your fault! I gave you my servant so you could have sex with her,[a] and when she discovered that she was pregnant, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”

Abram answered Sarai, “Look, your servant is under your control, so do to her as you wish.”[b] So Sarai dealt so harshly with Hagar[c] that she ran away from Sarai.[d]

The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the desert on the road to Shur.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:5 Lit. my servant your bosom
  2. Genesis 16:6 Lit. her what is good in your eyes
  3. Genesis 16:6 Lit. her
  4. Genesis 16:6 Lit. her