1 亚伯兰的妻子撒莱， 没有为他生孩子。撒莱却有一个婢女， 是埃及人， 名叫夏甲。 2 撒莱对亚伯兰说： "请看， 耶和华使我不能生育， 求你去亲近我的婢女， 或者我可以从她得孩子。"亚伯兰就听从了撒莱的话。 3 亚伯兰在迦南地住满了十年， 他的妻子撒莱， 把自己的婢女埃及人夏甲， 给了她的丈夫亚伯兰为妾。 4 亚伯兰与夏甲亲近， 夏甲就怀了孕。夏甲见自己有了孕， 就轻看她的主母。 5 撒莱对亚伯兰说： "我因你受屈； 我把我的婢女送到你的怀中， 她见自己有了孕， 就轻看我。愿耶和华在你我之间主持公道。" 6 亚伯兰对撒莱说： "你的婢女在你手中， 你看怎样好， 就怎样待她吧。"于是撒莱虐待夏甲， 她就从撒莱面前逃走了。 7 耶和华的使者在旷野的水泉旁边， 就是在到书珥路上的水旁边， 遇到了她， 8 就问她： "撒莱的婢女夏甲啊， 你从哪里来？要到哪里去？"夏甲回答： "我从我的主母撒莱面前逃出来。" 9 耶和华的使者对她说： "回到你主母那里去， 服在她的手下！ " 10 耶和华的使者又对她说： "我必使你的后裔人丁兴旺， 多到不可胜数。" 11 耶和华的使者再对她说： "看哪， 你已经怀了孕， 你要生一个儿子； 你要给他起名叫以实玛利， 因为耶和华听见了你的苦情。 12 他将来为人， 必像野驴。他的手要攻打人， 人的手也要攻打他。他必住在众兄弟的东面。" 13 于是， 夏甲给那对她说话的耶和华， 起名叫"你是看顾人的 神"， 因为她说： "在这里我不是也看见了那位看顾人的吗？" 14 因此， 这井名叫庇耳．拉海．莱， 是在加低斯和巴列之间。 15 夏甲给亚伯兰生了一个儿子， 亚伯兰就给夏甲所生的儿子， 起名叫以实玛利。 16 亚伯兰八十六岁的时候， 夏甲给他生了以实玛利。

1 And Sarai, Abram`s wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar;2 and Sarai saith unto Abram, `Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her;` and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.3 And Sarai, Abram`s wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram`s dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,4 and he goeth in unto Hagar, and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes.5 And Sarai saith unto Abram, `My violence [is] for thee; I -- I have given mine handmaid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.`6 And Abram saith unto Sarai, `Lo, thine handmaid [is] in thine hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes;` and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence.7 And a messenger of Jehovah findeth her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way [to] Shur,8 and he saith, `Hagar, Sarai`s handmaid, whence hast thou come, and whither dost thou go?` and she saith, `From the presence of Sarai, my mistress, I am fleeing.`9 And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Turn back unto thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hands;`10 and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Multiplying I multiply thy seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;`11 and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Behold thou [art] conceiving, and bearing a son, and hast called his name Ishmael, for Jehovah hath hearkened unto thine affliction;12 and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one`s hand against him -- and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.`13 And she calleth the name of Jehovah who is speaking unto her, `Thou [art], O God, my beholder;` for she said, `Even here have I looked behind my beholder?`14 therefore hath one called the well, `The well of the Living One, my beholder;` lo, between Kadesh and Bered.15 And Hagar beareth to Abram a son; and Abram calleth the name of his son, whom Hagar hath borne, Ishmael;16 and Abram [is] a son of eighty and six years in Hagar`s bearing Ishmael to Abram.