1 Sarai, mulher de Abrão, não lhe tinha dado filho; mas, possuindo uma escrava egípcia, chamada Agar,
2 disse a Abrão: "Eis que o Senhor me fez estéril; rogo-te que tomes a minha escrava, para ver se, ao menos por ela, eu posso ter filhos." Abrão aceitou a proposta de Sarai.
3 Sarai tomou, pois, sua escrava, Agar, a egípcia, passado dez anos que Abrão habitava a terra de Canaã, e deu-a por mulher a Abrão, seu marido.
4 Este aproximou-se de Agar e ela concebeu. Agar, vendo que tinha concebido, começou a desprezar a sua senhora.
5 Então Sarai disse a Abrão: "Caia sobre ti o ultraje que me é feito! Dei-te minha escrava, e ela, desde que concebeu, olha-me com desprezo. O Senhor seja juiz entre mim e ti!"
6 Abrão respondeu-lhe: "Tua escrava está em teu poder, faze dela o que quiseres." E Sarai maltratou-a de tal forma que ela teve de fugir.
7 O anjo do Senhor, encontrando-a no deserto junto de uma fonte que está no caminho de Sur,
8 disse-lhe: "Agar, escrava de Sarai, donde vens? E para onde vais?" "Eu fujo de Sarai, minha senhora", respondeu ela.
9 "Volta para a tua senhora, tornou o anjo do Senhor, e humilha-te diante dela."
10 E ajuntou: "Multiplicarei tua posteridade de tal forma, e será tão numerosa, que não se poderá contar."
11 Disse ainda mais: "Estás grávida, e vais dar à luz um filho: dar-te-ás o nome de Ismael, porque o Senhor te ouviu na tua aflição.
12 Este menino será como um jumento bravo: sua mão se levantará contra todos e a mão de todos contra ele, e levantará sua tenda defronte de todos os seus irmãos."
13 Agar deu ao Senhor, que lhe tinha falado, o nome: Vós sois El-roí, "porque, dizia ela, não vi eu aqui mesmo o Deus que me via?"
14 E por isso deu-se àquele poço o nome de poço Lahai-roí; ele se encontra entre Cadés e Barad.
15 Agar deu à luz um filho a Abrão, o qual lhe pôs o nome de Ismael.
16 Abrão tinha a idade de oitenta e seis anos quando Agar lhe deu à luz Ismael.
1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
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.
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.
4 And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.
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.
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.
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.
8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.
9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.
10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
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.
12 And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
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?
14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.