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The Birth of Ishmael
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar,
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So, after Abram had lived for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.
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He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
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And he said, ‘Hagar, slave-girl of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?’ She said, ‘I am running away from my mistress Sarai.’
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Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
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Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
The child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
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But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.
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So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
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And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, ‘What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
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Ishmael’s Descendants
These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave-girl, bore to Abraham.
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The Allegory of Hagar and Sarah
Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law?
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Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery.
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Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
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the descendants of Hagar, who seek for understanding on the earth, the merchants of Merran and Teman, the story-tellers and the seekers for understanding, have not learned the way to wisdom, or given thought to her paths.
