Ismaēla dzimšana
1 Sāraja, Ābrama sieva, nevarēja viņam dzemdēt, bet viņai bija ēģiptiešu kalpone, vārdā Hāgare. 2 Un Sāraja teica Ābramam: “Redzi, nu! Kungs man liedzis dzemdēt! Ej taču pie manas kalpones, varbūt es varu dabūt bērnu no viņas!” Un Ābrams paklausīja Sāraju. 3 Sāraja, Ābrama sieva, ņēma savu kalponi ēģiptieti Hāgari – pēc tam kad Ābrams desmit gadus bija dzīvojis Kanaānas zemē –, un viņa deva to savam vīram Ābramam par sievu. 4 Un viņš gāja pie Hāgares, un viņa tapa grūta. Kad viņa redzēja, ka tapusi grūta, viņas kundze tai šķita nevērta. 5 Un Sāraja teica Ābramam: “Tu man esi nodarījis pārestību – es devu savu kalponi starp taviem gurniem, un, kad viņa redzēja, ka ir grūta, tad es viņai kļuvu nevērta! Lai iztiesā Kungs starp mani un tevi!” 6 Un Ābrams teica Sārajai: “Še tava kalpone tavā rokā, dari viņai, kā tev tīk!” Sāraja viņu pazemoja, un tā no viņas aizbēga. 7 Bet Kunga eņģelis viņu atrada pie ūdens avota tuksnesī ceļā uz Šūru. 8 Un viņš teica: “Hāgare, Sārajas kalpone, no kurienes tu nāc un kurp tu ej?” Viņa teica: “Es bēgu no savas kundzes Sārajas!” 9 Kunga eņģelis viņai teica: “Ej atpakaļ pie savas kundzes un pakļaujies viņai!” 10 Un Kunga eņģelis viņai teica: “Vairot es vairošu tavus pēcnācējus, un viņus nevarēs saskaitīt – tik daudz to būs!” 11 Un Kunga eņģelis viņai teica:
“Redzi, tu esi grūta, un tu dzemdēsi dēlu,
un tu nosauksi viņu vārdā Ismaēls ,
jo Kungs tavas ciešanas uzklausījis!
12 Un viņš būs cilvēks kā mežēzelis!
Viņa roka – pret visiem, un visu roka pret viņu,
un visiem saviem brāļiem viņš iepretī mitīs!”
13 Un Kungu, kas uz viņu bija runājis, viņa nosauca vārdā: tu – mana redzējuma Dievs, jo viņa teica: “Vai tad ne šeit es redzēju to, kas redz mani?” 14 Tādēļ to aku nosauca par Beēr-Lahaj-Roī , redzi, tā ir starp Kādēšu un Beredu.
15 Un Hāgare dzemdēja Ābramam dēlu, un Ābrams savu dēlu, kuru viņam bija dzemdējusi Hāgare, nosauca vārdā Ismaēls. 16 Kad Hāgare dzemdēja Ābramam Ismaēlu, Ābrams bija astoņdesmit sešus gadus vecs.
Hagar and Ishmael
1 Abram's wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar, 2 and Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine.” Abram agreed, 3 and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years. 4 Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and treated Sarai hatefully.
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “It's all your fault! I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant. You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the Lord for this.”
6 Abram said, “All right! She's your slave—do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.
7 Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur. While she was there, the angel of the Lord came to her 8 and asked, “Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
She answered, “I'm running away from Sarai, my owner.”
9 The angel said, “Go back to Sarai and be her slave. 10-11 I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And someday I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all. 12 But your son will live far from his relatives; he will be like a wild donkey, fighting everyone, and everyone fighting him.”
13 Hagar thought, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?” So from then on she called him, “The God Who Sees Me.” 14 That's why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered, “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”
15-16 Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.
