^{1 (J)} Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. ^{2 (J)} And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. ^{3 (P)} So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. ^{4 (J)} And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. ^{5 (J)} And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!" ^{6 (J)} But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

^{7 (J)} The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. ^{8 (J)} And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai." ^{9 (J)} The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her." ^{10 (J)} The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude." ^{11 (J)} And the angel of the Lord said to her,

"Behold, you are pregnant
    and shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
    because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
^{12 (J)} He shall be a wild donkey of a man,
    his hand against everyone
    and everyone's hand against him,
and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."

^{13 (J)} So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me." ^{14 (J)} Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

^{15 (P)} And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. ^{16 (P)} Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.