Genesis 16
1 Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't been able to have any children for him. However, she owned a female Egyptian slave named Hagar,
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。
2 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.
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。
3 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.
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。
4 Abram slept with Hagar and she became pregnant. When she realized she was pregnant, she treated her mistress with contempt.
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。
5 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!”
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。”
6 “Listen, she's your slave!” Abram replied. “You can do whatever you want to her.” Sarai treated Hagar so badly that she ran away.
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。
7 The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert—the spring on the road to Shur.
耶和华的使者在旷野书珥路上的水泉旁遇见她，
8 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.
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。”
9 “Go back to your mistress and do what she tells you,” the angel of the Lord told her.
耶和华的使者对她说：“你回到你主母那里，服在她手下”；
10 Then he continued, “I will give you many, many descendants—in fact they'll be so many they can't be counted.”
又说：“我必使你的后裔极其繁多，甚至不可胜数”；
11 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.
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。
12 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.”
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。”
13 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.”
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？”
14 That's why the well is called “the Well of the Living One who Sees Me.” It's still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
所以这井名叫庇耳·拉海·莱。这井正在加低斯和巴列中间。
15 Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram. Abram named his son Ishmael.
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。
16 Abram was 86 when Hagar had Ishmael.
夏甲给亚伯兰生以实玛利的时候，亚伯兰年八十六岁。
