Hagar and Ishmael
1 Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave woman named Hagar, 2 and so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me.” Abram agreed with what Sarai said. 3 So she gave Hagar to him to be his concubine. (This happened after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years.) 4 Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she found out that she was pregnant, she became proud and despised Sarai.
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “It's your fault that Hagar despises me. I myself gave her to you, and ever since she found out that she was pregnant, she has despised me. May the Lord judge which of us is right, you or me!”
6 Abram answered, “Very well, she is your slave and under your control; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so cruelly that she ran away.
7 The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur 8 and said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”
She answered, “I am running away from my mistress.”
9 He said, “Go back to her and be her slave.” 10 Then he said, “I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them. 11 You are going to have a son, and you will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cry of distress. 12 But your son will live like a wild donkey; he will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will live apart from all his relatives.”
13 Hagar asked herself, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?” So she called the Lord, who had spoken to her, “A God Who Sees.” 14 That is why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”
15 Hagar bore Abram a son, and he named him Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old at the time.
1 Bet Sāraja, Ābrāma sieva, tam nebija dzemdējusi, un tai bija kalpone no Ēģiptes, tās vārds bija Hagara. 2 Un Sāraja teica Ābrāmam: "Redzi, Tas Kungs man nav devis iespēju dzemdēt, ej pie manas kalpones, varbūt no viņas man tiks doti pēcnācēji." Un Ābrāms paklausīja Sārajas balsij. 3 Un Sāraja, Ābrāma sieva, paņēma ēģiptieti Hagaru, savu kalponi, un deva to Ābrāmam par sievu pēc tam, kad tas desmit gadus bija nodzīvojis Kānaāna zemē. 4 Un viņš gāja pie Hagaras, un tā tapa grūta. Un, kad tā redzēja, ka ir grūta, tad viņas kundze tai likās nicināma. 5 Tad Sāraja sacīja Ābrāmam: "Netaisnība, kāda man notikusi, lai nāk pār tevi; es esmu devusi savu kalponi tavā klēpī, bet, kad tā redzēja, ka ir grūta, es kļuvu nicināma viņas acīs; lai Tas Kungs tiesā starp mani un tevi." 6 Tad Ābrāms teica Sārajai: "Redzi, tava kalpone šeit ir tavās rokās, dari viņai, kas tavām acīm labpatīk." 7 Tad Sāraja viņu pazemoja. Bet viņa aizbēga prom no tās. Bet Tā Kunga eņģelis to atrada pie ūdens avota tuksnesī, pie avota ceļā uz Šūru. 8 Un viņš sacīja Hagarai, Sārajas kalponei: "No kurienes tu nāc, un kurp tu ej?" Bet tā sacīja: "No savas valdnieces Sārajas es esmu bēgusi." 9 Un Tā Kunga eņģelis sacīja uz viņu: "Atgriezies pie savas valdnieces un pazemojies zem tās rokas." 10 Un Tā Kunga eņģelis sacīja uz viņu: "Es vairodams vairošu tavus pēcnācējus, un tie nebūs saskaitāmi lielā daudzuma dēļ." 11 Un Tā Kunga eņģelis sacīja uz viņu: "Redzi, tu esi grūta, un tu dzemdēsi dēlu un sauksi viņa vārdu: Ismaēls , jo Tas Kungs tevi ir uzklausījis tavās bēdās. 12 Viņš būs savvaļas vīrs; viņa roka būs pret katru, un ikviena roka būs pret viņu, un viņš nevienam savu brāļu starpā negriezīs ceļu." 13 Un viņa nosauca Tā Kunga Vārdu, kas bija runājis uz viņu: Tu esi manas parādības Dievs, jo viņa teica: "Vai tad es neesmu Viņu redzējusi, kas mani redz!" 14 Tāpēc šo avotu sauc Beer la kaj roi . Tas ir starp Kadešu un Baradu. 15 Un Hagara dzemdēja Ābrāmam dēlu, un Ābrāms nosauca savu dēlu, ko Hagara bija dzemdējusi, vārdā Ismaēls. 16 Un Ābrāmam bija astoņdesmit seši gadi, kad Hagara dzemdēja Ābrāmam Ismaēlu.
