1Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.[ † ]Genesis 11:30Genesis 15:2-3Genesis 12:16Genesis 21:9Galatians 4:24
2So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.[ † ]Genesis 30:3Genesis 20:18Genesis 30:3-9Genesis 3:17 3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.[ † ]Genesis 12:4-5 4And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.[ † ]1 Samuel 1:6-7Proverbs 30:21-23
5Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me.”[ † ]Genesis 31:53Exodus 5:21
6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.[ † ]1 Peter 3:7Genesis 16:9Exodus 2:15
7Now the angel of the Lord found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.[ † ]Genesis 21:17-18Genesis 22:11-15Genesis 31:11Genesis 20:1Genesis 25:18Exodus 15:22
8“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
9So the angel of the Lord told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”[ † ]Titus 2:9 10Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”[ † ]Genesis 17:20
13So Hagar gave this name to the Lord who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”[ † ]Genesis 31:42 14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.[ † ]Genesis 24:62Genesis 14:7Numbers 13:26
15And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.[ † ]Galatians 4:22 16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.