Chapter 16
- And Sarai the wife of Avram did not bear for him children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
- And Sarai said to Avram, “Behold G-d has caused me not to be able to give birth – Have relations, with my maid, maybe I will build from her,” and Avram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- And Sarai, the wife of Avram took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her as a wife to Avram, this was after ten years after Avram settling in the land of Kannan.
- He came to Hagar and she got pregnant, and she realized that she was pregnant, and her Mistress was diminished in her estimation.
- And Sarai said to Avram, “I am angry at you – I gave you my maid to you, and she sees that she became pregnant, and then she sees me as lower… – may G-d judge between us.”
- And Avram said to Sarai, “Here is your mistress; do to her as you see fit, and Sarai gave her hard work,” and she fled.
- And an angel of God found her on a fountain of water (namely next to) in the desert on the way to Shur.
- And he said, “Hagar the maid of Sarai, from where have you come and where are you going?” – and she said, “From Sarai my mistress I am fleeing.”
- And the angel said to her – “Return to you mistress and allow yourself to be afflicted.”
- And the angel of God said, “I will greatly increase your offspring, and they will not be countable.”
- And the angel of God said, “Behold you are pregnant and you will give birth to a son – and you should call his name Yishmoel – for God has heard your pain.
- And he will be a wild person: he will have his hand in everyone’s stuff, and everyone will have their hands in his; and before all his brother’s he will dwell.”
- And she called the name of God, who spoke to her, “You are G-d of seeing, for she said ‘Have I seen here, also after I have seen.’”
- Therefore the name of the well is called the well of Lachai Roi – it is between Kodeish and Bared.
- And Avram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar gave birth to Yishmoel to Avram.
