Genesis 16

vesaray eshet avram lo yaledah lo velah shifkhah mitsrit ushemah hagar

Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

vattomer saray el-avram hinneh-na atsarani Adonai milledet bo-na el-shifkhati ulay ibbaneh mimmennah vayyishma avram leqol saray

And Sarai said to Abram, “Look, GOD has kept me from bearing. Consort with my maid; perhaps I shall have a child through her.” And Abram heeded Sarai’s request.

vattiqqakh saray eshet-avram et-hagar hammitsrit shifkhatah miqqets eser shanim leshevet avram be'erets kena'an vattitten otah le'avram ishah lo le'isha

So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian—after Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan ten years—and gave her to her husband Abram as concubine.

vayyavo el-hagar vattahar vattere ki haratah vatteqal gevirtah be'eneha

He cohabited with Hagar and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lowered in her esteem.

vattomer saray el-avram khamasi alekha anokhi natatti shifkhati bekheqekha vattere ki haratah va'eqal be'eneha yishpot Adonai beni uvenekha

And Sarai said to Abram, “The wrong done me is your fault! I myself put my maid in your bosom; now that she sees that she is pregnant, I am lowered in her esteem. GOD decide between you and me!”

vayyomer avram el-saray hinneh shifkhatekh beyadekh asi-lah hattov be'enayikh vatte'anneha saray vattivrakh mippaneha

Abram said to Sarai, “Your maid is in your hands. Deal with her as you think right.” Then Sarai treated her harshly, and she ran away from her.

vayyimtsa'ah malakh Adonai al-en hammayim bammidbar al-ha'ayin bederekh shur

An angel of GOD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur,

vayyomar hagar shifkhat saray e-mizzeh vat ve'anah telekhi vattomer mippene saray gevirti anokhi borakhat

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

vayyomer lah malakh Adonai shuvi el-gevirtekh vehitanni takhat yadeha

And the angel of GOD said to her, “Go back to your mistress, and submit to her harsh treatment.”

vayyomer lah malakh Adonai harbah arbeh et-zarekh velo yissafer merov

And the angel of GOD said to her, “I will greatly increase your offspring, And they shall be too many to count.”

vayyomer lah malakh Adonai hinnakh harah veyoladt ben veqarat shemo yishma'el ki-shama Adonai el-onyekh

The angel of GOD said to her further, “Behold, you are pregnant And shall bear a son; You shall call him Ishmael, For GOD has paid heed to your suffering.

vehu yihyeh pere adam yado vakkol veyad kol bo ve'al-pene khol-ekhayw yishkon

He shall be a wild ass of a person; His hand against everyone, And everyone’s hand against him; He shall dwell alongside all his kin.”

vattiqra shem-Adonai haddover eleha attah el ro'i ki amerah hagam halom ra'iti akhare ro'i

And she called GOD who spoke to her, “You Are El-roi,” by which she meant, “Have I not gone on seeing after my being seen!”

al-ken qara labbe'er be'er lakhay ro'i hinneh ven-qadesh uven bared

Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it is between Kadesh and Bered.—

vatteled hagar le'avram ben vayyiqra avram shem-beno asher-yaledah hagar yishma'el

Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram gave the son that Hagar bore him the name Ishmael.

ve'avram ben-shemonim shanah veshesh shanim beledet-hagar et-yishma'el le'avram

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