Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram (A)had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan. So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became (B)despised in her [a]eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:4 sight

And He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?”

She said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”

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15 So (A)Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and [a]a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and (A)sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:14 A water bottle made of skins

The Families of Ishmael and Isaac(A)

12 Now this is the (B)genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

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