Genesis 16:4-12

New International Version

⁴He slept with Hagar,^(A) and she conceived.

When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.^(B) ⁵Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”^(C)

⁶“Your slave is in your hands,^(D)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated^(E) Hagar; so she fled from her.

⁷The angel of the Lord^(F) found Hagar near a spring^(G) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.^(H) ⁸And he said, “Hagar,^(I) slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”^(J)

“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

⁹Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” ¹⁰The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”^(K)

¹¹The angel of the Lord^(L) also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.^(M)
You shall name him^(N) Ishmael,^[a]^(O)
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.^(P)
¹²He will be a wild donkey^(Q) of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
    toward^[b] all his brothers.^(R)”