The Birth of Ishmael

16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave whose name was Hagar,^{(A) 2} and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.^{(B) 3} So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.^{(C) 4} He went in to Hagar, and she conceived, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

¹⁵ Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.^(A)