创世记 16
1 亚伯兰的妻子撒莱不给他生儿女。撒莱有一个使女，名叫夏甲，是埃及人。
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne any children for him, but she had a female servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2 撒莱对亚伯兰说：“耶和华使我不能生育。求你和我的使女同房，或者我可以因她得孩子。”亚伯兰听从了撒莱的话。
So Sarai said to Abram, “See, Yahweh has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my servant. It may be that I will have children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3 于是亚伯兰的妻子撒莱将使女埃及人夏甲给了丈夫为妾；那时亚伯兰在迦南已经住了十年。
It was after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan that Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband as a wife.
4 亚伯兰与夏甲同房，夏甲就怀了孕；她见自己有孕，就小看她的主母。
So he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
5 撒莱对亚伯兰说：“我因你受屈。我将我的使女放在你怀中，她见自己有了孕，就小看我。愿耶和华在你我中间判断。”
Then Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong on me is because of you. I gave my servant woman into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Let Yahweh judge between me and you.”
6 亚伯兰对撒莱说：“使女在你手下，你可以随意待她。”撒莱苦待她，她就从撒莱面前逃走了。
But Abram said to Sarai, “See here, your servant woman is in your power, do to her what you think best.” So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
7 耶和华的使者在旷野书珥路上的水泉旁遇见她，
The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring that is on the way to Shur.
8 对她说：“撒莱的使女夏甲，你从哪里来？要往哪里去？”夏甲说：“我从我的主母撒莱面前逃出来。”
He said, “Hagar, Sarai's servant, where did you come from and where are you going?” Then she said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”
9 耶和华的使者对她说：“你回到你主母那里，服在她手下”；
The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”
10 又说：“我必使你的后裔极其繁多，甚至不可胜数”；
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants, so that they will be too numerous to count.”
11 并说：“你如今怀孕要生一个儿子，可以给他起名叫以实玛利，因为耶和华听见了你的苦情。
The angel of Yahweh also said to her, “Behold, you are pregnant and will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
12 他为人必像野驴。他的手要攻打人，人的手也要攻打他；他必住在众弟兄的东边。”
He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile against every man, and every man will be hostile to him, and he will live apart from all his brothers.”
13 夏甲就称那对她说话的耶和华为“看顾人的 神”。因而说：“在这里我也看见那看顾我的吗？”
Then she gave this name to Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Do I really continue to see, even after he has seen me?”
14 所以这井名叫庇耳·拉海·莱。这井正在加低斯和巴列中间。
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 后来夏甲给亚伯兰生了一个儿子；亚伯兰给他起名叫以实玛利。
Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16 夏甲给亚伯兰生以实玛利的时候，亚伯兰年八十六岁。
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
