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Génesis 16
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Génesis 16
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Sarai y Agar
16 Sarai, mujer de Abram, no le había dado a luz hijo(A) alguno. Pero ella tenía una sierva egipcia(B) que se llamaba Agar. 2 Entonces Sarai dijo a Abram: «Mira, el Señor me ha impedido tener hijos. Llégate, te ruego, a mi sierva(C); quizá por medio de ella yo tenga hijos». Y Abram escuchó la voz de Sarai. 3 Después de diez años de habitar Abram en la tierra de Canaán(D), Sarai, mujer de Abram, tomó a su sierva Agar la egipcia, y se la dio a su marido Abram por mujer.
4 Y Abram se llegó a Agar, y ella concibió. Cuando ella vio que había concebido, miraba con desprecio a su señora. 5 Entonces Sarai dijo a Abram: «Recaiga sobre ti mi agravio(E). Yo entregué a mi sierva en tus brazos[a]. Pero cuando ella vio que había concebido, me miró con desprecio[b]. Juzgue el Señor entre tú y yo(F)». 6 Pero Abram dijo a Sarai: «Mira, tu sierva está bajo tu poder[c](G); haz con ella lo que mejor te parezca[d]». Y Sarai trató muy mal a Agar y ella huyó de su presencia.
Nacimiento de Ismael
7 El ángel del Señor(H) la encontró junto a una fuente de agua en el desierto, junto a la fuente en el camino de Shur(I), 8 y le dijo: «Agar, sierva de Sarai, ¿de dónde has venido y a dónde vas(J)?». Ella le respondió: «Huyo de la presencia de mi señora Sarai». 9 «Vuelve a tu señora y sométete a su autoridad[e]», le dijo el ángel del Señor.
10 El ángel del Señor añadió(K): «Multiplicaré de tal manera tu descendencia[f](L) que no se podrá contar por su multitud». 11 El ángel del Señor le dijo además:
«Has concebido
Y darás a luz un hijo;
Y le llamarás Ismael[g],
Porque el Señor ha oído tu aflicción(M).
12 -»Él será hombre indómito como asno montés(N);
Su mano será contra todos,
Y la mano de todos contra él,
Y habitará separado de[h] todos sus hermanos(O)».
13 Agar llamó el nombre del Señor que le había hablado: «Tú eres un Dios que ve[i]»; porque dijo: «¿Estoy todavía con vida después de ver a Dios?[j](P)». 14 Por eso se llamó a aquel pozo Beer Lajai Roi[k], el cual está entre Cades(Q) y Bered.
15 Agar le dio un hijo a Abram, y Abram le puso el nombre de Ismael al hijo que Agar le había dado. 16 Abram tenía 86 años(R) cuando Agar dio a luz a Ismael.
Footnotes
- 16:5 Lit. tu seno.
- 16:5 Lit. fui despreciada en sus ojos.
- 16:6 Lit. en tu mano.
- 16:6 Lit. lo que sea bueno a tus ojos.
- 16:9 Lit. bajo sus manos.
- 16:10 Lit. simiente.
- 16:11 I.e. Dios oye.
- 16:12 Lit. ante la faz de o en desafío de.
- 16:13 O Tú, Dios, me ves.
- 16:13 Lit. ¿Aun aquí he podido ver después del que me vio?
- 16:14 I.e. pozo del Viviente que me ve.
Genesis 16
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Genesis 16
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Hagar and Ishmael
16 Now Sarai,(A) Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.(B) But she had an Egyptian slave(C) named Hagar;(D) 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.(E) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”(F)
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan(G) ten years,(H) Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar,(I) and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.(J) 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”(K)
6 “Your slave is in your hands,(L)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated(M) Hagar; so she fled from her.
7 The angel of the Lord(N) found Hagar near a spring(O) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.(P) 8 And he said, “Hagar,(Q) slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”(R)
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”(S)
11 The angel of the Lord(T) also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.(U)
You shall name him(V) Ishmael,[a](W)
for the Lord has heard of your misery.(X)
12 He will be a wild donkey(Y) of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward[b] all his brothers.(Z)”
13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,(AA)” for she said, “I have now seen[c] the One who sees me.”(AB) 14 That is why the well(AC) was called Beer Lahai Roi[d];(AD) it is still there, between Kadesh(AE) and Bered.
15 So Hagar(AF) bore Abram a son,(AG) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(AH) to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old(AI) when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
Footnotes
- Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears.
- Genesis 16:12 Or live to the east / of
- Genesis 16:13 Or seen the back of
- Genesis 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.
Genesis 16
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Genesis 16
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Sarai, Hagar, and Ishmael
16 Now Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar. 2 So Sarai told Abram, “You are well aware that the Lord has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son[a] through her.”
Abram listened to Sarai’s suggestion, 3 so Abram’s wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place[b] ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan. 4 He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
5 Then Sarai told Abram, “My suffering is your fault! I gave you my servant so you could have sex with her,[c] and when she discovered that she was pregnant, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”
6 Abram answered Sarai, “Look, your servant is under your control, so do to her as you wish.”[d] So Sarai dealt so harshly with Hagar[e] that she ran away from Sarai.[f]
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,[g] because the Lord has heard your cry of[h] misery. 12 As a man, he’ll be uncontrollable.[i] He’ll[j] be against everyone, everyone will be against him,[k]and he’ll live in conflict with[l] 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.
15 Hagar eventually gave birth to Abram’s son. Abram named his son whom Hagar bore Ishmael. 16 Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.
Footnotes
- Genesis 16:2 Lit. possibly be built up
- Genesis 16:3 The Heb. lacks This took place
- Genesis 16:5 Lit. my servant your bosom
- Genesis 16:6 Lit. her what is good in your eyes
- Genesis 16:6 Lit. her
- Genesis 16:6 Lit. her
- Genesis 16:11 I.e. God hears
- Genesis 16:11 The Heb. lacks cry of
- Genesis 16:12 Lit. be a wild donkey; i.e., stubborn, volatile, and highly resistant to being tamed
- Genesis 16:12 Lit. His hand will
- Genesis 16:12 Lit. against his hand
- Genesis 16:12 Lit. in the face of
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