1 Maar Sarai, die vrou van Abram, het vir hom geen kinders gebaar nie; en sy het 'n Egiptiese slavin gehad met die naam van Hagar.
2 En Sarai het vir Abram gesê: Jy weet, die HERE het my nie toegelaat om moeder te word nie. Gaan tog in by my slavin; miskien sal ek uit haar gebou word. En Abram het na Sarai geluister.
3 Toe neem Sarai, die vrou van Abram, Hagar, die Egiptiese, haar slavin -- nadat Abram tien jaar in die land Kana„n gewoon het -- en gee haar aan haar man Abram om sy vrou te wees.
4 En hy het by Hagar ingegaan, en sy het swanger geword. Maar toe sy sien dat sy swanger was, het haar meesteres veragtelik in haar oë geword.
5 En Sarai sê vir Abram: Die onreg my aangedoen, is op jou! Ek self het my slavin in jou skoot gegee, en nou dat sy sien dat sy swanger is, het ek veragtelik in haar oë geword. Laat die HERE oordeel tussen my en jou.
6 En Abram antwoord Sarai: Daar is jou slavin in jou hand -- doen met haar soos dit goed is in jou oë. Toe het Sarai haar sleg behandel, en sy het van haar af weggevlug.
7 En die Engel van die HERE het haar by 'n fontein in die woestyn gevind, by die fontein op pad na Sur,
8 en gevra: Hagar, slavin van Sarai, waar kom jy vandaan, en waar gaan jy heen? En sy antwoord: Ek vlug van my meesteres Sarai af weg.
9 Toe sê die Engel van die HERE vir haar: Gaan terug na jou meesteres en verneder jou onder haar hande.
10 Verder sê die Engel van die HERE vir haar: Ek sal jou nageslag grootliks vermeerder, sodat dit vanweë die menigte nie getel kan word nie.
11 Ook sê die Engel van die HERE vir haar: Kyk, jy is swanger en sal 'n seun baar, en jy moet hom Ismael noem, want die HERE het jou in jou ellende verhoor.
12 En hy sal 'n wilde-esel van 'n mens wees: sy hand teen almal, en almal se hand teen hom! En hy sal teenoor al sy broers woon.
13 Toe noem sy die Naam van die HERE wat met haar gespreek het: U is 'n God wat sien. Want sy het gesê: Het ek hier ook gesien na Hom wat my sien?
14 Daarom noem hulle die put: Put van Lagai-Ro‹. Dit lê daar tussen Kades en Bered.
15 En Hagar het vir Abram 'n seun gebaar; en Abram het sy seun wat Hagar gebaar het, Ismael genoem.
16 En Abram was ses en tagtig jaar oud toe Hagar Ismael vir Abram gebaar het.
1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
2 And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.
3 So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.
4 And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.
5 And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.
6 And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.
7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.
9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.
10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.
12 And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
13 And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?
14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.