Genesis 16:7-15

Common English Bible

⁷The Lord’s messenger found Hagar at a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur, ⁸and said, “Hagar! Sarai’s servant! Where did you come from and where are you going?”

She said, “From Sarai my mistress. I’m running away.”

⁹The Lord’s messenger said to her, “Go back to your mistress. Put up with her harsh treatment of you.” ¹⁰The Lord’s messenger also said to her,

“I will give you many children,
so many they can’t be counted!”

¹¹The Lord’s messenger said to her,

“You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son.
        You will name him Ishmael^[a]
        because the Lord has heard about your harsh treatment.
¹²He will be a wild mule of a man;
        he will fight everyone, and they will fight him.
        He will live at odds with all his relatives.”^[b]

¹³Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are El Roi”^[c] because she said, “Can I still see after he saw me?”^[d] ¹⁴Therefore, that well is called Beer-lahai-roi;^[e] it’s the well between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named him Ishmael.