1 Sarai, Abramin vaimo, ei ollut synnyttänyt miehelleen lasta. Mutta Sarailla oli egyptiläinen orjatar, jonka nimi oli Hagar.
3 Abram oli asunut kymmenen vuotta Kanaaninmaassa, kun hänen vaimonsa Sarai antoi egyp- tiläisen orjattarensa Hagarin miehelleen Abramille sivuvaimoksi.
4 Abram yhtyi Hagariin, ja tämä tuli raskaaksi. Kun Hagar huomasi olevansa raskaana, hän alkoi väheksyä emäntäänsä.
7 Herran enkeli kohtasi Hagarin autiomaassa vesilähteellä, joka oli Surin tien varressa.
11 Sitten Herran enkeli sanoi hänelle: -- Sinä olet raskaana, ja kun synnytät pojan, anna hänelle nimeksi Ismael, sillä Herra kuuli, kun valitit hätääsi.
12 Poikasi on oleva kuin villiaasi, hänen kätensä on kaikkia vastaan, ja kaikkien käsi on häntä vastaan, aina hän on oleva vastakkain kaikkien veljiensä kanssa.
14 Siksi alettiin tuota Kadesin ja Beredin välillä sijaitsevaa vesipaikkaa nimittää Lahai-Roin kaivok- si.
15 Hagar synnytti Abramille pojan, ja Abram antoi pojalleen, jonka Hagar oli synnyttänyt, nimen Ismael.
16 Abram oli kahdeksankymmentäkuusivuotias, kun Hagar synnytti hänelle Ismaelin.
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.