Genesis 16

1 and Sarai woman: wife Abram not to beget to/for him and to/for her maidservant Egyptian and name her 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 and to say Sarai to(wards) Abram behold please to restrain me LORD from to beget to come (in): come please to(wards) maidservant my perhaps to build (from her *LBH(a)*) and to hear: hear Abram to/for voice 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 and to take: take Sarai woman: wife Abram [obj] Hagar [the] Egyptian maidservant her from end ten year to/for to dwell Abram in/on/with land: country/planet Canaan and to give: give [obj] her to/for Abram man: husband her to/for him to/for woman: wife

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 and to come (in): come to(wards) Hagar and to conceive and to see: see for to conceive and to lighten lady her in/on/with eye: seeing her

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 and to say Sarai to(wards) Abram violence my upon you I to give: give maidservant my in/on/with bosom: embrace your and to see: see for to conceive and to lighten in/on/with eye: seeing her to judge LORD between me and between you

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 and to say Abram to(wards) Sarai behold maidservant your in/on/with hand: power your to make: do to/for her [the] pleasant in/on/with eye: appearance your and to afflict her Sarai and to flee from face: before her

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 and to find her messenger: angel LORD upon spring [the] water in/on/with wilderness upon [the] spring in/on/with way: road 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 and to say Hagar maidservant Sarai where? from this to come (in): come and where? to go: went and to say from face of Sarai lady my I to flee

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 and to say to/for her messenger: angel LORD to return: return to(wards) lady your and to afflict underneath: under hand: to her

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

10 and to say to/for her messenger: angel LORD to multiply to multiply [obj] seed: children your and not to recount from abundance

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 and to say to/for her messenger: angel LORD behold you pregnant and to beget son: child and to call: call by name his Ishmael for to hear: hear LORD to(wards) affliction your

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 and he/she/it to be wild donkey man hand his in/on/with all and hand all in/on/with him and upon face: before all brother: male-relative his to dwell

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 and to call: call to name LORD [the] to speak: speak to(wards) her you(m. s.) God sight for to say also here to see: see after to see: see me

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 upon so to call: call by to/for well Beer-lahai-roi Beer-lahai-roi Beer-lahai-roi behold between Kadesh and between 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 and to beget Hagar to/for Abram son: child and to call: call by Abram name son: child his which to beget Hagar Ishmael

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

16 and Abram son: aged eighty year and six year in/on/with to beget Hagar [obj] Ishmael to/for Abram

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