Genesis 16:7-14

International Standard Version

⁷ The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the desert on the road to Shur. ⁸ “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he asked, “Where are you coming from and where are you going?”

She answered, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.”

⁹ The angel of the Lord told her, “You must go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.” ¹⁰ The angel of the Lord also told her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.

¹¹ “Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son,” the angel of the Lord continued to say to her. “You will name him Ishmael,^[a] because the Lord has heard your cry of^[b] misery. ¹² As a man, he’ll be uncontrollable.^[c] He’ll^[d] be against everyone, everyone will be against him,^[e]and he’ll live in conflict with^[f] all of his relatives.”

¹³ So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are ‘God who sees,’ because I have truly seen the one who looks after me.”

¹⁴ That’s why the spring was called, “The Well of the Living One who Looks after Me.” It was between Kadesh and Bered.