Chakruok 16

1 Koro Sarai chi Abram ne pok onywolone nyithindo. To ne en gi misumba ma nyako ma nyar Misri, ma nyinge ne Hagar;

Up to that time, Abram’s wife Sarai had not given birth to any children for Abram. But she had a female slave from Egypt, whose name was Hagar.

2 omiyo Sarai nowacho ne Abram niya, “Jehova Nyasaye ok osemiya nyithindo. Dhiyo mondo iriwri gi jatichna ma nyako; dipoka ayudo joga koa kuome.” Abram noyie gi wach Sarai.

[So one day] Sarai said to Abram, “Listen to me! Yahweh has not allowed me to become pregnant. So (sleep with/have sex with) [EUP] my slave Hagar. Perhaps she will bear children whom I can consider to be mine.” Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

3 Kane oyudo Abram osedak Kanaan kuom higni apar, Sarai chiege nokawo misumbane ma nyako Misri, ma nyinge Hagar kendo nochiwe ne chwore mondo obed chiege.

So Abram (slept with/had sex with) Hagar, his wife Sarai’s slave from Egypt. This happened ten years after they went to live in Canaan [land]. Sarai gave Hagar to her husband to be his secondary wife.

4 Abram noriwore gi Hagar kendo nomako ich. Kane ofwenyo ni en gi ich, nochako chayo ruodhe madhako.

He (slept with/had sex with) [EUP] Hagar and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress Sarai.

5 Eka Sarai nowacho ne Abram niya, “In ema ikelona achayani. Ne aketo jatichna e lweti, kendo ka koro ongʼeyo ni osemako ich to ochaya mad Jehova Nyasaye bed jangʼad bura e kinda kodi.”

Then Sarai said to Abram, “It is your fault! I put my servant into your arms, so that you could sleep with her [EUP]. Now she realizes that she is pregnant, and she despises me. I think Yahweh will punish you for doing this to me!”

6 Abram nodwoke niya, “Jatichni ni e lweti, tim kode gima iparo ni ber.” Eka Sarai nosando Hagar; mi noringo oa e wangʼe.

So Abram said to Sarai, “[You listen to me]! She is your servant, so act towards her in the way you consider best.” Then Sarai started to mistreat her, so she ran away from Sarai.

7 Malaika mar Jehova Nyasaye noyudo Hagar machiegni gi soko e thim; ne en soko manie bath yo madhi Shur.

An angel of Yahweh found her as she was near a spring of water in the desert. It was the spring that was alongside the road to Shur.

8 Kendo nopenjo niya, “Hagar jatich Sarai, ia kanye to idhi kanye?” Hagar nodwoke niya, “Aringo aa e wangʼ Sarai matiyone.”

He said to her, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I have run away from Sarai, my mistress.”

9 Eka malaika mar Jehova Nyasaye nowachone niya, “Dogi ir ngʼat ma itiyone kendo ichiwri e lwete.”

The angel said, “Go back to your mistress and be under her authority [MTY]”.

10 Malaika nomedo wachone niya, “Abiro medo ogandani mabed mangʼeny ma ok nyal kwan.”

The angel also said to her, “I will enable you to bear so many descendants that no one will be able to count them!”

11 Malaika mar Jehova Nyasaye nomedo wachone niya, “Koro in gi ich kendo ibiro nywolo nyathi ma wuowi, mi inichake Ishmael, nikech Jehova Nyasaye osewinjo chandruokni.

The angel also said to her, “[Listen to this!] You are pregnant. You will give birth to a son. You must name him Ishmael, [which means ‘God hears]’, because Yahweh has heard you crying because you feel so miserable.

12 Obiro bedo ngʼama kwiny ka kanyna mapok obo; nobed mamon gi ji duto, kendo ji duto bende nobed mamon kode, mi nodag komon gi owetene duto.”

But your son will be as uncontrollable as a wild donkey [MET]. He will oppose everyone, and everyone will oppose him [MTY]. He will live far away from his relatives [SYN].”

13 Bangʼeno Hagar nochako Nyasaye mane osewuoyo kode nying ni El-roi (ma tiende ni Jehova Nyasaye Maneno); nimar nowacho niya, “Koro aseneno Jalno manena.”

Then Hagar realized that the angel was really Yahweh, so she said to herself, “(It is difficult to believe that I have really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me!/Have I really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me?)” [RHQ] So she called him ‘Yahweh, the one who sees me’.

14 Mano emomiyo sokono nochaki ni Beer-Lahai-Roi; kendo pod entiere nyaka chil kawuono, e kind Kadesh kod Bered.

That is why people call the well there ‘Beer-Lahai-Roi’, [which means, ‘The well of the living one who sees us’!] It is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

15 Kuom mano Hagar nonywolone Abram nyathi ma wuowi kendo nochako nyinge ni Ishmael.

So Hagar later gave birth to a son for Abram, and she gave to her son the name Ishmael.

16 Abram ne ja-higni piero aboro gauchiel kane Hagar onywolone Ishmael.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son Ishmael.