1 Ora Sarai, mulher de Abrão, não lhe dava filhos; mas tinha uma serva egípcia, que se chamava Hagar.

2 Disse Sarai a Abrão: Eis que Jeová me tem impedido de ter filhos; toma, pois, a minha serva, porventura terei filhos por meio dela. Escutou Abrão a voz de Sarai.

3 Então Sarai, mulher de Abrão, tomou a Hagar egípcia, sua serva, depois de Abrão ter habitado dez anos na terra de Canaã, e a deu por mulher a seu marido.

4 Ele conheceu a Hagar, e ela concebeu; vendo ela que tinha concebido, foi sua senhora desprezada aos seus olhos.

5 Disse Sarai a Abrão: Seja sobre ti a afronta, que me é feita a mim. Eu pus a minha serva no teu seio, e vendo ela que tinha concebido, eu fui desprezada aos seus olhos. Jeová seja juiz entre mim e ti.

6 Respondeu, porém, Abrão a Sarai: Eis que tua serva está em tuas mãos: faze-lhe como bem te parecer. E Sarai maltratou-a, e ela fugiu da sua face.

7 O anjo de Jeová achou-a junto a uma fonte de água no deserto, junto à fonte que está no caminho de Sur.

8 Perguntou-lhe: Hagar, serva de Sarai, donde vieste? e para onde vais? Respondeu ela: Da presença de Sarai, minha senhora, vou fugindo.

9 Disse-lhe o anjo de Jeová: Volta para a tua senhora, e humilha-te debaixo das suas mãos.

10 Disse-lhe mais o anjo de Jeová: Multiplicarei sobremaneira a tua descendência, de modo que não será contada por ser tão numerosa.

11 Disse-lhe ainda mais o anjo de Jeová: Eis que concebeste, e darás à luz um filho, a quem chamarás Ismael, porque Jeová ouviu a tua aflição.

12 Ele será como um jumento selvagem entre os homens; a sua mão será contra todos, e a mão de todos contra ele: ao oriente de todos os seus irmãos habitará.

13 Então chamou a Jeová que lhe falava: Tu és Deus que vê; pois ela disse: Não olhei eu neste lugar para aquele que me vê?

14 Pelo que se chamou o poço Beer-Laai-Roi; ele está entre Cades e Berede.

15 Hagar deu à luz Ismael a Abrão; e Abrão chamou Ismael o nome do filho que Hagar lhe deu.

16 Tinha Abrão oitenta e seis anos, quando Hagar lhe deu à luz Ismael.

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.