Gênesis 16

1 Ora Sarai, mulher de Abrão, não lhe paria, e ele tinha uma serva egípcia, cujo nome era 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 E disse Sarai a Abrão: Eis que o Senhor me tem impedido de parir; entra pois à minha serva; porventura terei filhos dela. E ouviu Abrão a voz de 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 Assim tomou Sarai, mulher de Abrão, a Hagar egípcia, sua serva, e deu-a por mulher a Abrão seu marido, ao fim de dez anos que Abrão habitara na terra de Canaan.

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 E ele entrou a Hagar, e ela concebeu; e vendo ela que concebera, foi sua senhora desprezada aos seus olhos.

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 Então disse Sarai a Abrão: Meu agravo seja sobre ti: minha serva pus eu em teu regaço; vendo ela agora que concebeu, sou menosprezada aos seus olhos: o Senhor julgue entre mim e ti

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 E disse Abrão a Sarai: Eis que tua serva está na tua mão, faze-lhe o que bom é aos teus olhos. E afligiu-a Sarai, e ela fugiu de sua face.

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 E o anjo do Senhor a achou junto a uma fonte d'água no deserto, junto à fonte no caminho de Sur.

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 E disse: Hagar, serva de Sarai, de onde vens, e para onde vais? E ela disse: Venho fugida da face de Sarai minha senhora.

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 Então lhe disse o anjo do Senhor: Torna-te para tua senhora, e humilha-te debaixo de suas mãos.

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

10 Disse-lhe mais o anjo do Senhor: Multiplicarei sobremaneira a tua semente, que não será contada, por numerosa que será.

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 Disse-lhe também o anjo do Senhor: Eis que concebeste, e parirás um filho, e chamarás o seu nome Ishmael; porquanto o Senhor ouviu a tua aflição.

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 E ele será homem feroz, e a sua mão será contra todos, e a mão de todos contra ele: e habitará diante da face de todos os seus irmãos.

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 E ela chamou o nome do Senhor, que com ela falava: Tu és Deus da vista, porque disse: Não olhei eu também para aquele que me vê?

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 Por isso se chama aquele poço de lachairoi; eis que está entre Kades e 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 E Hagar pariu um filho a Abrão; e Abrão chamou o nome do seu filho que Hagar parira, Ishmael.

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

16 E era Abrão da idade de oitenta e seis anos, quando Hagar pariu Ishmael a Abrão.

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