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Hagar and Ishmael
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
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So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
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The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
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And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
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So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
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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 on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.
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But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
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Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
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God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
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Ishmael’s Sons
This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
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Descendants of Hagar
These were their descendants: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
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Hagar and Sarah
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
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These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
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Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
