تكوين 16

١ 1 وَأَمَّا سَارَايُ زَوْجَةُ أَبْرَامَ فَقَدْ كَانَتْ عَاقِراً، وَكَانَتْ لَهَا جَارِيَةٌ مِصْرِيَّةٌ تُدْعَى هَاجَرَ.

Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't been able to have any children for him. However, she owned a female Egyptian slave named Hagar,

٢ 2 فَقَالَتْ سَارَايُ لأَبْرَامَ: «هُوَذَا الرَّبُّ قَدْ حَرَمَنِي مِنَ الْوِلادَةِ، فَادْخُلْ عَلَيْهَا لَعَلَّنِي أُرْزَقُ مِنْهَا بَنِينَ». فَسَمِعَ أَبْرَامُ لِكَلامِ زَوْجَتِهِ.

so Sarai said to Abram, “Please listen to me. The Lord hasn't let me have any children. So please go and sleep with my slave. Maybe I can have a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai had suggested.

٣ 3 وَهَكَذَا بَعْدَ إِقَامَةِ عَشْرِ سَنَوَاتٍ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، أَخَذَتْ سَارَايُ جَارِيَتَهَا الْمِصْرِيَّةَ هَاجَرَ وَأَعْطَتْهَا لِرَجُلِهَا أَبْرَامَ لِتَكُونَ زَوْجَةً لَهُ.

So Sarai, Abram's wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband as his wife. Abram had been living in the land of Canaan for ten years when this happened.

٤ 4 فَعَاشَرَ هَاجَرَ فَحَبِلَتْ مِنْهُ. وَلَمَّا أَدْرَكَتْ أَنَّهَا حَامِلٌ هَانَتْ مَوْلاتُهَا فِي عَيْنَيْهَا،

Abram slept with Hagar and she became pregnant. When she realized she was pregnant, she treated her mistress with contempt.

٥ 5 فَقَالَتْ سَارَايُ لأَبْرَامَ: «لِيَقَعْ ظُلْمِي عَلَيْكَ، فَأَنَا قَدْ زَوَّجْتُكَ مِنْ جَارِيَتِي وَحِينَ أَدْرَكَتْ أَنَّهَا حَامِلٌ هِنْتُ فِي عَيْنَيْهَا. لِيَقْضِ الرَّبُّ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ».

Then Sarai complained to Abram, “What I'm suffering is all your doing! I gave you my servant to sleep with, and now that she knows she's pregnant, she treats me with contempt. May the Lord decide who's at fault—you or me!”

٦ 6 فَأَجَابَهَا أَبْرَامُ: «هَا هِيَ جَارِيَتُكِ تَحْتَ تَصَرُّفِكِ، فَافْعَلِي بِها مَا يَحْلُو لَكِ». فَأَذَلَّتْهَا سَارَايُ حَتَّى هَرَبَتْ مِنْهَا.

“Listen, she's your slave!” Abram replied. “You can do whatever you want to her.” Sarai treated Hagar so badly that she ran away.

٧ 7 فَوَجَدَهَا مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ بِالْقُرْبِ مِنْ عَيْنِ الْمَاءِ فِي الطَّرِيقِ الْمُؤَدِّيَةِ إِلَى شُورٍ.

The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert—the spring on the road to Shur.

٨ 8 فَقَالَ: «يَا هَاجَرُ جَارِيَةَ سَارَايَ، مِنْ أَيْنَ جِئْتِ؟ وَإِلَى أَيْنَ تَذْهَبِينَ؟». فَأَجَابَتْ: «إِنَّنِي هَارِبَةٌ مِنْ وَجْهِ سَيِّدَتِي سَارَايَ».

He asked her, “Hagar, Sarai's slave—where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I'm running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

٩ 9 فَقَالَ لَهَا مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ: «عُودِي إِلَى مَوْلاتِكِ وَاخْضَعِي لَهَا».

“Go back to your mistress and do what she tells you,” the angel of the Lord told her.

١٠ 10 وَقَالَ لَهَا مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ: «لأُكَثِّرَنَّ نَسْلَكِ فَلا يَعُودُ يُحْصَى»،

Then he continued, “I will give you many, many descendants—in fact they'll be so many they can't be counted.”

١١ 11 وَأَضَافَ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ: «هُوَذَا أَنْتِ حَامِلٌ، وَسَتَلِدِينَ ابْناً تَدْعِينَهُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ (وَمَعْنَاهُ: اللهُ يَسْمَعُ) لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ سَمِعَ صَوْتَ شَقَائِكِ.

The angel of the Lord went on to tell her: “Listen! You're pregnant, and you will have a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard how you've suffered.

١٢ 12 وَيَكُونُ إِنْسَاناً وَحْشِيًّا يُعَادِي الْجَمِيعَ وَالْجَمِيعُ يُعَادُونَهُ، وَيَعِيشُ مُسْتَوْحِشاً مُتَحَدِّياً كُلَّ إِخْوَتِهِ».

He'll be a wild donkey kind of man—he will fight with everyone, and everyone will fight with him. He will forever be fighting with his relatives.”

١٣ 13 فَدَعَتِ اسْمَ الرَّبِّ الَّذِي خَاطَبَهَا: «أَنْتَ اللهُ الَّذِي رَآنِي» لأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: «حَقّاً رَأَيْتُ الآنَ الَّذِي يَرَانِي»

From then on Hagar called the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” because she said, “Here I saw the one who sees me.”

١٤ 14 لِذَلِكَ سُمِّيَتِ الْبِئْرُ «بِئْرَ لَحَيْ رُئِي» (وَمَعْنَاهُ بِئْرُ الْحَيِّ الَّذِي يَرَانِي) وَهِيَ وَاقِعَةٌ بَيْنَ قَادَشَ وَبَارَدَ.

That's why the well is called “the Well of the Living One who Sees Me.” It's still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

١٥ 15 ثُمَّ وَلَدَتْ هَاجَرُ لأَبْرَامَ ابْناً، فَدَعَا أَبْرَامُ ابْنَهُ الَّذِي أَنْجَبَتْهُ لَهُ هَاجَرُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ.

Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram. Abram named his son Ishmael.

١٦ 16 وَكَانَ أَبْرَامُ فِي السَّادِسَةِ وَالثَّمَانِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ عِنْدَمَا وَلَدَتْ لَهُ هَاجَرُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ.

Abram was 86 when Hagar had Ishmael.