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 bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee. 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? 14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.