Genesis 16

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;

وَأَمَّا سَارَايُ زَوْجَةُ أَبْرَامَ فَقَدْ كَانَتْ عَاقِراً، وَكَانَتْ لَهَا جَارِيَةٌ مِصْرِيَّةٌ تُدْعَى هَاجَرَ.

so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”

Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

فَقَالَتْ سَارَايُ لأَبْرَامَ: «هُوَذَا الرَّبُّ قَدْ حَرَمَنِي مِنَ الْوِلادَةِ، فَادْخُلْ عَلَيْهَا لَعَلَّنِي أُرْزَقُ مِنْهَا بَنِينَ». فَسَمِعَ أَبْرَامُ لِكَلامِ زَوْجَتِهِ.

So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

وَهَكَذَا بَعْدَ إِقَامَةِ عَشْرِ سَنَوَاتٍ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، أَخَذَتْ سَارَايُ جَارِيَتَهَا الْمِصْرِيَّةَ هَاجَرَ وَأَعْطَتْهَا لِرَجُلِهَا أَبْرَامَ لِتَكُونَ زَوْجَةً لَهُ.

He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.

When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

فَعَاشَرَ هَاجَرَ فَحَبِلَتْ مِنْهُ. وَلَمَّا أَدْرَكَتْ أَنَّهَا حَامِلٌ هَانَتْ مَوْلاتُهَا فِي عَيْنَيْهَا،

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

فَقَالَتْ سَارَايُ لأَبْرَامَ: «لِيَقَعْ ظُلْمِي عَلَيْكَ، فَأَنَا قَدْ زَوَّجْتُكَ مِنْ جَارِيَتِي وَحِينَ أَدْرَكَتْ أَنَّهَا حَامِلٌ هِنْتُ فِي عَيْنَيْهَا. لِيَقْضِ الرَّبُّ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ».

“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

فَأَجَابَهَا أَبْرَامُ: «هَا هِيَ جَارِيَتُكِ تَحْتَ تَصَرُّفِكِ، فَافْعَلِي بِها مَا يَحْلُو لَكِ». فَأَذَلَّتْهَا سَارَايُ حَتَّى هَرَبَتْ مِنْهَا.

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

فَوَجَدَهَا مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ بِالْقُرْبِ مِنْ عَيْنِ الْمَاءِ فِي الطَّرِيقِ الْمُؤَدِّيَةِ إِلَى شُورٍ.

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.

فَقَالَ: «يَا هَاجَرُ جَارِيَةَ سَارَايَ، مِنْ أَيْنَ جِئْتِ؟ وَإِلَى أَيْنَ تَذْهَبِينَ؟». فَأَجَابَتْ: «إِنَّنِي هَارِبَةٌ مِنْ وَجْهِ سَيِّدَتِي سَارَايَ».

Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”

فَقَالَ لَهَا مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ: «عُودِي إِلَى مَوْلاتِكِ وَاخْضَعِي لَهَا».

The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

وَقَالَ لَهَا مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ: «لأُكَثِّرَنَّ نَسْلَكِ فَلا يَعُودُ يُحْصَى»،

The angel of the Lord also said to her:

وَيَكُونُ إِنْسَاناً وَحْشِيًّا يُعَادِي الْجَمِيعَ وَالْجَمِيعُ يُعَادُونَهُ، وَيَعِيشُ مُسْتَوْحِشاً مُتَحَدِّياً كُلَّ إِخْوَتِهِ».

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^[c] the One who sees me.”

فَدَعَتِ اسْمَ الرَّبِّ الَّذِي خَاطَبَهَا: «أَنْتَ اللهُ الَّذِي رَآنِي» لأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: «حَقّاً رَأَيْتُ الآنَ الَّذِي يَرَانِي»

That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi^[d]; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

لِذَلِكَ سُمِّيَتِ الْبِئْرُ «بِئْرَ لَحَيْ رُئِي» (وَمَعْنَاهُ بِئْرُ الْحَيِّ الَّذِي يَرَانِي) وَهِيَ وَاقِعَةٌ بَيْنَ قَادَشَ وَبَارَدَ.

So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

ثُمَّ وَلَدَتْ هَاجَرُ لأَبْرَامَ ابْناً، فَدَعَا أَبْرَامُ ابْنَهُ الَّذِي أَنْجَبَتْهُ لَهُ هَاجَرُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

وَكَانَ أَبْرَامُ فِي السَّادِسَةِ وَالثَّمَانِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ عِنْدَمَا وَلَدَتْ لَهُ هَاجَرُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ.