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Genesis 15:6-16:16
New International Version
Genesis 15:6-16:16
New International Version
6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.(A)
7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out(B) of Ur of the Chaldeans(C) to give you this land to take possession of it.”(D)
8 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord,(E) how can I know(F) that I will gain possession of it?”(G)
9 So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer,(H) a goat and a ram, each three years old,(I) along with a dove and a young pigeon.(J)”
10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other;(K) the birds, however, he did not cut in half.(L) 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses,(M) but Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,(N) and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years(O) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved(P) and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out(Q) with great possessions.(R) 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors(S) in peace and be buried at a good old age.(T) 16 In the fourth generation(U) your descendants will come back here,(V) for the sin of the Amorites(W) has not yet reached its full measure.”
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch(X) appeared and passed between the pieces.(Y) 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram(Z) and said, “To your descendants I give this land,(AA) from the Wadi[a] of Egypt(AB) to the great river, the Euphrates(AC)— 19 the land of the Kenites,(AD) Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites,(AE) Perizzites,(AF) Rephaites,(AG) 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”(AH)
Hagar and Ishmael
16 Now Sarai,(AI) Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.(AJ) But she had an Egyptian slave(AK) named Hagar;(AL) 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.(AM) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”(AN)
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan(AO) ten years,(AP) Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar,(AQ) and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.(AR) 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.”(AS)
6 “Your slave is in your hands,(AT)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated(AU) Hagar; so she fled from her.
7 The angel of the Lord(AV) found Hagar near a spring(AW) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.(AX) 8 And he said, “Hagar,(AY) slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”(AZ)
“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.”(BA)
11 The angel of the Lord(BB) also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.(BC)
You shall name him(BD) Ishmael,[b](BE)
for the Lord has heard of your misery.(BF)
12 He will be a wild donkey(BG) of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward[c] all his brothers.(BH)”
13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,(BI)” for she said, “I have now seen[d] the One who sees me.”(BJ) 14 That is why the well(BK) was called Beer Lahai Roi[e];(BL) it is still there, between Kadesh(BM) and Bered.
15 So Hagar(BN) bore Abram a son,(BO) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(BP) to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old(BQ) when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
Footnotes
- Genesis 15:18 Or river
- 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 15:6-16:16
King James Version
Genesis 15:6-16:16
King James Version
6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
16 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
13 And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
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