Genesis 16 (NET)

Genesis 16:1¹Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:24Gen 12:16Gen 15:2-3Gen 21:9-10Gen 11:30Gen 21:12Gen 21:21Gen 25:21Judg 13:2Luke 1:36

Genesis 16:2²So Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 21:4Gen 18:10Gen 3:17Gen 17:16Gen 20:18Gen 25:21Gen 3:1-6Gen 3:12Gen 30:2-4Gen 30:22

Genesis 16:3³So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:4-5Gen 16:52 Sam 5:131 Kgs 11:3Gal 4:25Gen 25:6Gen 28:9Gen 30:4Gen 30:9Gen 32:22

Genesis 16:4⁴He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 6:16Prov 30:231 Cor 13:4-51 Cor 4:61 Sam 1:6-8Prov 30:20-21

Genesis 16:5⁵Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! I gave my servant into your embrace, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the Lord judge between you and me!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:53Exod 5:211 Sam 24:12-152 Chr 24:22Luke 10:40-41Ps 35:23Ps 7:8Ps 43:1

Genesis 16:6⁶Abram said to Sarai, “Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 38:51 Pet 3:7Eccl 10:4Exod 2:15Gen 13:8-9Gen 24:10Job 2:6Prov 14:29Prov 15:1Prov 15:17-18

Genesis 16:7⁷The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness—the spring that is along the road to Shur.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:22Gen 21:17Gen 25:18Prov 15:31 Sam 15:7Gen 20:1Gen 22:11Gen 22:15Gen 31:11

Genesis 16:8⁸He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:9Gen 4:10Eccl 10:4Jer 2:17-181 Sam 26:191 Tim 6:1-2Eph 6:5-8Gen 16:1Gen 16:4

Genesis 16:9⁹Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:5-61 Pet 2:18-25Eccl 10:4Eph 5:21Eph 6:5-6Titus 2:9

Genesis 16:10¹⁰I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the angel of the Lord added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:20Ps 83:6-7Gen 21:13Gen 21:18Gen 22:15-18Gen 25:12-18Acts 7:30-38Exod 3:2-6Gen 21:16Gen 31:11-13

Genesis 16:11¹¹Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:23-24Exod 3:7Isa 7:141 Sam 1:20Gen 17:19Gen 41:51-52Exod 3:9Job 38:41Luke 1:13Luke 1:31

Genesis 16:12¹²He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:20Gen 25:18Job 39:5-8Gen 27:40Job 11:12

Genesis 16:13¹³So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 139:1-12Gen 32:30Prov 15:3Prov 5:21Gen 16:7Gen 31:42Gen 22:14Exod 34:5-7Gen 28:17Exod 33:18-23

Genesis 16:14¹⁴That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:62Gen 25:11Gen 21:31Num 13:26Gen 14:7

Genesis 16:15¹⁵So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:121 Chr 1:28Gal 4:22-23Gen 16:11Gen 17:18Gen 17:20Gen 17:25-26Gen 21:9-21Gen 25:9Gen 28:9

Genesis 16:16¹⁶(Now Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI