Genesis 16

1 Igitur Sarai, uxor Abram, non genuerat liberos: sed habens ancillam Ægyptiam nomine Agar,

Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

2 dixit marito suo: Ecce, conclusit me Dominus, ne parerem: ingredere ad ancillam meam, si forte saltem ex illa suscipiam filios. Cumque ille acquiesceret deprecanti,

So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

3 tulit Agar Ægyptiam ancillam suam post annos decem quam habitare cœperant in terra Chanaan: et dedit eam viro suo uxorem.

So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

4 Qui ingressus est ad eam. At illa concepisse se videns, despexit dominam suam.

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

5 Dixitque Sarai ad Abram: Inique agis contra me: ego dedi ancillam meam in sinum tuum, quæ videns quod conceperit, despectui me habet. iudicet Dominus inter me, et te.

Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

6 Cui respondens Abram: Ecce, ait, ancilla tua in manu tua est, utere ea ut libet. Affligente igitur eam Sarai, fugam iniit.

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

7 Cumque invenisset eam angelus Domini iuxta fontem aquæ in solitudine, qui est in via Sur in deserto,

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

8 dixit ad illam: Agar ancilla Sarai, unde venis? et quo vadis? quæ respondit: A facie Sarai dominæ meæ ego fugio.

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

9 Dixitque ei angelus Domini: Revertere ad dominam tuam, et humiliare sub manu illius.

So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

10 Et rursum: Multiplicans, inquit, multiplicabo semen tuum, et non numerabitur præ multitudine.

Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

11 Ac deinceps: Ecce, ait, concepisti, et paries filium: vocabisque nomen eius Ismael, eo quod audierit Dominus afflictionem tuam.

The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

12 Hic erit ferus homo: manus eius contra omnes, et manus omnium contra eum: et e regione universorum fratrum suorum figet tabernacula.

He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

13 Vocavit autem nomen Domini qui loquebatur ad eam: Tu Deus qui vidisti me. Dixit enim: Profecto hic vidi posteriora videntis me.

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

14 Propterea appellavit puteum illum, Puteum viventis et videntis me. Ipse est inter Cades et Barad.

Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.

15 Peperitque Agar Abræ filium: qui vocavit nomen eius Ismael.

And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

16 Octoginta et sex annorum erat Abram quando peperit ei Agar Ismaelem.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.