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Genesis 16:6-13 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

6. ‘Your slave is in your hands,’ Abram said. ‘Do with her whatever you think best.’ Then Sarai ill-treated Hagar; so she fled from her.

7. The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

8. And he said, ‘Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?’‘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.’

11. The angel of the Lord also said to her:‘You are now pregnantand you will give birth to a son.You shall name him Ishmael,for the Lord has heard of your misery.

12. He will be a wild donkey of a man;his hand will be against everyoneand everyone’s hand against him,and he will live in hostilitytowards all his brothers.’

13. She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: ‘You are the God who sees me,’ for she said, ‘I have now seen the One who sees me.’

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