# Genesis 16

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. [2] So 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. [3] So 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. [4] And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. [5] Then 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.” [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. [7] Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur. [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. [9] So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.” [10] Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.” [11] The angel of the LORD proceeded:
“Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son.
And you shall name him Ishmael,
for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction. [12] He will be a wild donkey of a man,
and his hand will be against everyone,
and everyone’s hand against him;
he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.” [13] So 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!” [14] Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered. [15] And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. [16] Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

## Places in this chapter

- **Canaan** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/canaan
- **Bered** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/bered
- **Shur** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/shur
- **Kadesh-barnea** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/kadesh-barnea
- **Beer-lahai-roi** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/beer-lahai-roi

## Who appears in this chapter

- **Abraham** (father of faith) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/people/abraham
- **Hagar** (the Egyptian maidservant) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/people/hagar
- **Ishmael** (the firstborn of Abraham) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/people/ishmael

## Each verse

- Genesis 16:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/1
- Genesis 16:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/2
- Genesis 16:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/3
- Genesis 16:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/4
- Genesis 16:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/5
- Genesis 16:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/6
- Genesis 16:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/7
- Genesis 16:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/8
- Genesis 16:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/9
- Genesis 16:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/10
- Genesis 16:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/11
- Genesis 16:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/12
- Genesis 16:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/13
- Genesis 16:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/14
- Genesis 16:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/15
- Genesis 16:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/16/16