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World English Bible

Genesis 16 (WEBP)

[1] Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
[2] Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
[3] Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
[4] He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
[5] Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
[6] But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
[7] Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
[8] He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
[9] Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
[10] Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
[11] Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
[12] He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”
[13] She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
[14] Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
[15] Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
[16] Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

Genesis 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Genesis 16 (KJVS)

[1] 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 thy 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 Beer-lahai-roi; 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.

Genesis 16:2 Be built by her
Genesis 16:6a That which is good in thy eyes
Genesis 16:6b Afflicted her
Genesis 16:11 That is, God shall hear
Genesis 16:14 That is, the well of him that liveth and seeth me

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Genesis 16 (BYZ)

[1] Σαρα δὲ () ἡ () γυνὴ () Αβραμ οὐκ () ἔτικτεν () αὐτῷ. () Ἦν () δὲ () αὐτῇ () παιδίσκη () Αἰγυπτία, ᾗ () ὄνομα () Αγαρ. ()
[2] Εἶπεν () δὲ () Σαρα πρὸς () Αβραμ Ἰδοὺ () συνέκλεισέν () με () κύριος () τοῦ () μὴ () τίκτειν· () εἴσελθε () οὖν () πρὸς () τὴν () παιδίσκην () μου, () ἵνα () τεκνοποιήσῃς ἐξ () αὐτῆς. () Ὑπήκουσεν () δὲ () Αβραμ τῆς () φωνῆς () Σαρας.
[3] Καὶ () λαβοῦσα () Σαρα ἡ () γυνὴ () Αβραμ Αγαρ () τὴν () Αἰγυπτίαν τὴν () ἑαυτῆς () παιδίσκην ()—μετὰ () δέκα () ἔτη () τοῦ () οἰκῆσαι () Αβραμ ἐν () γῇ () Χανααν ()—καὶ () ἔδωκεν () αὐτὴν () Αβραμ τῷ () ἀνδρὶ () αὐτῆς () αὐτῷ () γυναῖκα. ()
[4] Καὶ () εἰσῆλθεν () πρὸς () Αγαρ, () καὶ () συνέλαβεν () καὶ () εἶδεν () ὅτι () ἐν () γαστρὶ () ἔχει, () καὶ () ἠτιμάσθη () ἡ () κυρία () ἐναντίον () αὐτῆς. ()
[5] Εἶπεν () δὲ () Σαρα πρὸς () Αβραμ Ἀδικοῦμαι () ἐκ () σοῦ· () ἐγὼ () δέδωκα () τὴν () παιδίσκην () μου () εἰς () τὸν () κόλπον () σου, () ἰδοῦσα () δὲ () ὅτι () ἐν () γαστρὶ () ἔχει, () ἠτιμάσθην () ἐναντίον () αὐτῆς· () κρίναι () ὁ () θεὸς () ἀνὰ () μέσον () ἐμοῦ () καὶ () σοῦ. ()
[6] Εἶπεν () δὲ () Αβραμ πρὸς () Σαραν Ἰδοὺ () ἡ () παιδίσκη () σου () ἐν () ταῖς () χερσίν () σου· () χρῶ () αὐτῇ, () ὡς () ἄν () σοι () ἀρεστὸν () ᾖ. () Καὶ () ἐκάκωσεν () αὐτὴν () Σαρα, καὶ () ἀπέδρα ἀπὸ () προσώπου () αὐτῆς. ()
[7] Εὗρεν () δὲ () αὐτὴν () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () ἐπὶ () τῆς () πηγῆς () τοῦ () ὕδατος () ἐν () τῇ () ἐρήμῳ, () ἐπὶ () τῆς () πηγῆς () ἐν () τῇ () ὁδῷ () Σουρ.
[8] Καὶ () εἶπεν () αὐτῇ () ὁ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () Αγαρ () παιδίσκη () Σαρας, πόθεν () ἔρχῃ () καὶ () ποῦ () πορεύῃ; () Καὶ () εἶπεν () Ἀπὸ () προσώπου () Σαρας τῆς () κυρίας () μου () ἐγὼ () ἀποδιδράσκω.
[9] Εἶπεν () δὲ () αὐτῇ () ὁ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () Ἀποστράφητι () πρὸς () τὴν () κυρίαν () σου () καὶ () ταπεινώθητι () ὑπὸ () τὰς () χεῖρας () αὐτῆς. ()
[10] Καὶ () εἶπεν () αὐτῇ () ὁ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () Πληθύνων () πληθυνῶ () τὸ () σπέρμα () σου, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἀριθμηθήσεται () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () πλήθους. ()
[11] Καὶ () εἶπεν () αὐτῇ () ὁ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () Ἰδοὺ () σὺ () ἐν () γαστρὶ () ἔχεις () καὶ () τέξῃ () υἱὸν () καὶ () καλέσεις () τὸ () ὄνομα () αὐτοῦ () Ισμαηλ, ὅτι () ἐπήκουσεν () κύριος () τῇ () ταπεινώσει () σου. ()
[12] Οὗτος () ἔσται () ἄγροικος ἄνθρωπος· () αἱ () χεῖρες () αὐτοῦ () ἐπὶ () πάντας, () καὶ () αἱ () χεῖρες () πάντων () ἐπ’ () αὐτόν, () καὶ () κατὰ () πρόσωπον () πάντων () τῶν () ἀδελφῶν () αὐτοῦ () κατοικήσει. ()
[13] Καὶ () ἐκάλεσεν () Αγαρ () τὸ () ὄνομα () κυρίου () τοῦ () λαλοῦντος () πρὸς () αὐτήν () Σὺ () ὁ () θεὸς () ὁ () ἐπιδών () με· () ὅτι () εἶπεν () Καὶ () γὰρ () ἐνώπιον () εἶδον () ὀφθέντα () μοι. ()
[14] Ἕνεκεν () τούτου () ἐκάλεσεν () τὸ () φρέαρ () Φρέαρ () οὗ () ἐνώπιον () εἶδον· () ἰδοὺ () ἀνὰ () μέσον () Καδης καὶ () ἀνὰ () μέσον () Βαραδ.
[15] Καὶ () ἔτεκεν () Αγαρ () τῷ () Αβραμ υἱόν, () καὶ () ἐκάλεσεν () Αβραμ τὸ () ὄνομα () τοῦ () υἱοῦ () αὐτοῦ, () ὃν () ἔτεκεν () αὐτῷ () Αγαρ, () Ισμαηλ.
[16] Αβραμ δὲ () ἦν () ὀγδοήκοντα () ἓξ () ἐτῶν, () ἡνίκα () ἔτεκεν () Αγαρ () τὸν () Ισμαηλ τῷ () Αβραμ.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.