Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Gen 16:1 |
Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar. |
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Gen 16:2 |
So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will [fn]obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. |
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Gen 16:3 |
After Abram had [fn]lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. |
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Gen 16:4 |
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight. |
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Gen 16:5 |
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your [fn]arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her [fn]sight. May the LORD judge between [fn]you and me." |
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Gen 16:6 |
But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your [fn]power; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight." So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence. |
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Gen 16:7 |
Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. |
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Gen 16:8 |
He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai." |
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Gen 16:9 |
Then the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself [fn]to her authority." |
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Gen 16:10 |
Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your [fn]descendants so that [fn]they will be too many to count." |
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Gen 16:11 |
The angel of the LORD said to her further, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name [fn]Ishmael, Because the LORD [fn]has given heed to your affliction. |
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Gen 16:12 |
"He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will [fn]live [fn]to the east of all his brothers." |
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Gen 16:13 |
Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, " [fn]You are [fn]a God who sees"; for she said, "Have I even [fn]remained alive here after seeing Him?" |
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Gen 16:14 |
Therefore the well was called [fn]Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. |
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Gen 16:15 |
So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. |
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Gen 16:16 |
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to [fn]him. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (16:2) Literally: be built from her
- (16:3) Literally: dwelt
- (16:5) Literally: bosom
- (16:5) Literally: eyes
- (16:5) Literally: me and you
- (16:6) Literally: hand
- (16:6) Literally: eyes
- (16:9) Literally: under her hands
- (16:10) Literally: seed
- (16:10) Or, it shall not be counted for multitude
- (16:11) I.e. God hears
- (16:11) Literally: has heard
- (16:12) Literally: dwell
- (16:12) Literally: before the face of; or in defiance of
- (16:13) Or, You, God, see me
- (16:13) Hebrew: Elroi
- (16:13) Literally: seen here after the one who saw me
- (16:14) I.e. the well of the living one who sees me
- (16:16) Literally: Abram
