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And Sarai said to Abram, “(A)May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your [a]embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became [b]contemptible in her [c]sight. (B)May Yahweh judge between [d]you and me.” But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your [e]hand; do to her what is good in your [f]sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and (C)she fled from her presence.

Now (D)the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to (E)Shur.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:5 Lit bosom
  2. Genesis 16:5 Or cursed, cf. 12:3
  3. Genesis 16:5 Lit eyes
  4. Genesis 16:5 Lit me and you
  5. Genesis 16:6 Or power
  6. Genesis 16:6 Lit eyes

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”(A)

“Your slave is in your hands,(B)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated(C) Hagar; so she fled from her.

The angel of the Lord(D) found Hagar near a spring(E) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.(F)

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