Génesis 16

1 Sarai, la esposa de Abram, no le dio hijos. Tenía una sierva, una egipcia, que se llamaba Agar.

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 Sarai le dijo a Abram: “Mira ahora, Yahvé me ha impedido tener hijos. Por favor, acude a mi sierva. Puede ser que obtenga hijos de ella”. Abram escuchó la 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 Sarai, la esposa de Abram, tomó a Agar la egipcia, su sierva, después de que Abram había vivido diez años en la tierra de Canaán, y se la dio a Abram su esposo para que fuera su esposa.

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 Él se acercó a Agar, y ella concibió. Al ver que había concebido, su ama se despreció ante sus ojos.

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 Sarai dijo a Abram: “Este mal es culpa tuya. Entregué a mi sierva en tu seno, y cuando vio que había concebido, miraba con desprecio a su señora”.

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 Pero Abram dijo a Sarai: “He aquí que tu doncella está en tu mano. Haz con ella lo que te parezca bien”. Sarai la trató con dureza, y ella huyó de su rostro.

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 El ángel de Yahvé la encontró junto a una fuente de agua en el desierto, junto a la fuente del camino de 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 Le dijo: “Agar, sierva de Sarai, ¿de dónde vienes? ¿A dónde vas?” Ella dijo: “Huyo de la cara de mi señora Sarai”.

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 El ángel de Yahvé le dijo: “Vuelve a tu señora y sométete a sus manos”.

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

10 El ángel de Yahvé le dijo: “Multiplicaré en gran medida tu descendencia, que no podrá ser contada a causa de la multitud”.

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 El ángel de Yahvé le dijo: “He aquí que estás encinta y darás a luz un hijo. Lo llamarás Ismael, porque Yahvé ha escuchado tu aflicción.

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 Será como un asno salvaje entre los hombres. Su mano estará en contra de todo hombre, y la mano de todo hombre en contra de él. Vivirá opuesto a todos sus hermanos”.

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 Ella llamó al nombre de Yahvé que le habló: “Tú eres un Dios que ve”, pues dijo: “¿Acaso he quedado viva después de verlo?”

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 eso el pozo se llamó Beer Lahai Roi. He aquí que está entre Cades y 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 Agar dio a luz un hijo para Abram. Abram llamó el nombre de su hijo, que Agar dio a luz, Ismael.

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

16 Abram tenía ochenta y seis años cuando Agar dio a luz a Ismael.

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