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| 16:2 | And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said. |
| 16:3 | So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife. |
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| 16:5 | And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me. |
| 16:6 | And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her. |
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| 16:7 | And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur. |
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| 16:9 | And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority. |
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| 16:10 | And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered. |
| 16:11 | And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow. |
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| 16:13 | And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living? |
| 16:14 | So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered. |
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| 16:15 | And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael. |
| 16:16 | Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. |
Kejadian 16 - Bible in Basic English
