1 Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
2 Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the LORD has prevented me from giving birth. Go in, please, to my maidservant; perhaps through her I will be built into a family." Abram heeded what Sarai said.
3 So after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took her maidservant Hagar the Egyptian and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.
4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.
5 Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong I suffer fall on you! I put my maidservant in your arms, and now that she sees she is pregnant, I am of little account in her eyes. Let the LORD judge between me and you."
6 Abram said to Sarai, "Your maidservant is in your power; do with her what seems good to you." Sarai treated her harshly, and she ran away from her.
7 The angel of the LORD found her beside a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur.
8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, where have you come from, and where are you headed?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."
9 The angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and humble yourself under her hand."
10 And the angel of the LORD said to her, "I will multiply your seed so greatly that it will be too many to count."
11 The angel of the LORD also said to her, "You are now with child and will give birth to a son; you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your affliction.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against all and the hand of all against him; and he will live over against all his brothers."
13 She called the name of the LORD who was speaking to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Have I truly seen here after the one who sees me?"
14 That is why the well is called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
15 Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named the son Hagar had borne him Ishmael.
16 Abram was eighty-six when Hagar bore Ishmael for him.