Genesis 16
1 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.
| ושרי אשת אברם לא ילדה לו ולה שפחה מצרית ושמה הגר |
2 [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.
| ותאמר שרי אל אברם הנה נא עצרני יהוה מלדת--בא נא אל שפחתי אולי אבנה ממנה וישמע אברם לקול שרי |
3 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.
| ותקח שרי אשת אברם את הגר המצרית שפחתה מקץ עשר שנים לשבת אברם בארץ כנען ותתן אתה לאברם אישה לו לאשה |
4 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.
| ויבא אל הגר ותהר ותרא כי הרתה ותקל גברתה בעיניה |
5 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!”
| ותאמר שרי אל אברם חמסי עליך--אנכי נתתי שפחתי בחיקך ותרא כי הרתה ואקל בעיניה ישפט יהוה ביני וביניך |
6 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.
| ויאמר אברם אל שרי הנה שפחתך בידך--עשי לה הטוב בעיניך ותענה שרי ותברח מפניה |
7 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.
| וימצאה מלאך יהוה על עין המים--במדבר על העין בדרך שור |
8 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.”
| ויאמר הגר שפחת שרי אי מזה באת--ואנה תלכי ותאמר--מפני שרי גברתי אנכי ברחת |
9 The angel said, “Go back to your mistress and be under her authority [MTY]”.
| ויאמר לה מלאך יהוה שובי אל גברתך והתעני תחת ידיה |
10 The angel also said to her, “I will enable you to bear so many descendants that no one will be able to count them!”
| ויאמר לה מלאך יהוה הרבה ארבה את זרעך ולא יספר מרב |
11 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.
| ויאמר לה מלאך יהוה הנך הרה וילדת בן וקראת שמו ישמעאל כי שמע יהוה אל עניך |
12 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].”
| והוא יהיה פרא אדם--ידו בכל ויד כל בו ועל פני כל אחיו ישכן |
13 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’.
| ותקרא שם יהוה הדבר אליה אתה אל ראי כי אמרה הגם הלם ראיתי--אחרי ראי |
14 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.
| על כן קרא לבאר באר לחי ראי--הנה בין קדש ובין ברד |
15 So Hagar later gave birth to a son for Abram, and she gave to her son the name Ishmael.
| ותלד הגר לאברם בן ויקרא אברם שם בנו אשר ילדה הגר ישמעאל |
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son Ishmael.
| ואברם בן שמנים שנה ושש שנים בלדת הגר את ישמעאל לאברם |
