The Angel of the Lord(A) found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:9 Lit to mistreatment under her hand

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