Hagar and Ishmael

16 Now Sarai,^(A) Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.^(B) But she had an Egyptian slave^(C) named Hagar;^(D)

² so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.^(A) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”^(B)

Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

⁶ “Your slave is in your hands,^(A)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated^(B) Hagar; so she fled from her.

³ Then she said, “Here is Bilhah,^(A) my servant.^(B) Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”^(C)

⁹ When Leah^(A) saw that she had stopped having children,^(B) she took her servant Zilpah^(C) and gave her to Jacob as a wife.^(D)