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1 Saray, la esposa de Abram, no había podido tener hijos. Pero como tenía una esclava egipcia llamada Agar,
1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2 Saray la tomó y se la llevó a Abram para que durmiera con ella. Saray le dijo a Abram: ―Como el Señor no me ha permitido tener hijos, te ruego que te acuestes con mi esclava, para que yo pueda tener hijos por medio de ella. Abram estuvo de acuerdo con lo que le propuso Saray. Esto ocurrió cuando ya llevaban diez años viviendo en Canaán.
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 Not in this translation
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 Así que Abram se acostó con Agar, y ella quedó embarazada. Cuando Agar supo que estaba embarazada, comenzó a portarse mal con Saray, su dueña.
4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
5 Por eso, Saray le dijo a Abram: ―¡Tú tienes la culpa de que esta esclava me trate con desprecio! Yo te permití que durmieras con ella, y ahora que sabe que está embarazada se porta mal conmigo. ¡Que sea el Señor el que determine quién de nosotros tiene la culpa!
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 Entonces Abram le dijo a Saray: ―La muchacha es tu esclava, así que haz con ella lo que quieras. Saray comenzó a maltratar tanto a Agar, que esta decidió huir.
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 El ángel del Señor la encontró en el desierto, junto a un pozo que se halla en el camino que va hacia la región de Sur,
7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
8 y le preguntó: ―Agar, esclava de Saray, ¿de dónde vienes, y a dónde vas? ―Estoy huyendo de Saray, mi dueña —respondió Agar.
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 Entonces el ángel del Señor le dijo: ―Regresa adonde tu dueña, y obedécela.
9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
10 Además, el ángel del Señor le dijo: ―Tus descendientes serán tan numerosos que no será posible contarlos.
10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
11 Estás embarazada y tendrás un hijo, y lo llamarás Ismael (Dios oye), porque el Señor ha escuchado tu dolor.
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 Ismael será un hombre rebelde, como un potro salvaje. Peleará contra todos, y todos pelearán contra él; pero vivirá cerca de sus hermanos.
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 Agar llamó al Señor, que hablaba con ella, «el Dios que me ve», pues se decía para sus adentros: «He visto al Dios que me ve».
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 Por eso, a este pozo, que está entre Cades y Béred, se le conoce como el «Pozo del Viviente que me ve».
14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 Así que Agar le dio un hijo a Abram, el cual lo llamó Ismael.
15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16 Abram tenía ochenta y seis años cuando nació Ismael.
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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  • Abraham

    Father of nations

    Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 12–25

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  • Hagar

    Servant, mother of Ishmael

    Sarah's Egyptian servant who bore Ishmael and met God in the wilderness.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 16, 21

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  • Ishmael

    Abraham's firstborn

    Abraham's son by Hagar, blessed by God to become a great nation.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 16; 17:20; 21; 25:12–18

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Cross references (14)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Galatians 4:24; Genesis 12:16; Genesis 15:2–3; Genesis 21:9–10; Genesis 21:12
  2. 2 Genesis 18:10; Genesis 3:17; Exodus 21:4; Genesis 25:21; Genesis 20:18
  3. 4 2 Samuel 6:16; Proverbs 30:23; 1 Samuel 1:6–8; 1 Corinthians 13:4–5; Proverbs 30:20–21
  4. 5 Genesis 31:53; Exodus 5:21; Luke 10:40–41; Psalm 7:8; 1 Samuel 24:12–15
  5. 6 Jeremiah 38:5; Job 2:6; Proverbs 14:29; Psalm 106:41–42; 1 Peter 3:7
  6. 7 Exodus 15:22; Genesis 25:18; Genesis 21:17; Proverbs 15:3; Genesis 31:11
  7. 8 Genesis 3:9; Genesis 4:10; Ecclesiastes 10:4; Jeremiah 2:17–18; Ephesians 6:5–8
  8. 9 1 Peter 5:5–6; Ecclesiastes 10:4; Ephesians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:18–25; Ephesians 6:5–6
  9. 10 Genesis 17:20; Psalm 83:6–7; Genesis 21:18; Genesis 21:13; Genesis 25:12–18
  10. 11 Exodus 2:23–24; Exodus 3:7; Isaiah 7:14; Genesis 17:19; Genesis 41:51–52
  11. 12 Genesis 25:18; Genesis 21:20; Job 39:5–8; Genesis 27:40; Job 11:12
  12. 13 Psalm 139:1–12; Genesis 32:30; Proverbs 15:3; Proverbs 5:21; Genesis 16:7
  13. 14 Genesis 25:11; Genesis 24:62; Numbers 13:26; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 14:7
  14. 15 Genesis 25:12; Genesis 28:9; Genesis 17:18; 1 Chronicles 1:28; Genesis 17:25–26

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

Articles and answers on this site that cite Genesis 16.

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 16:6 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 25–27)

    … Sarah his wife, and had gratified her will and not his own,--had received her without seeking, had gone in to her without being attached, had impregnated without loving her,--for he says, "Behold thy maid is in thy hands: do to her as it pleaseth thee;" a man able to use women as a man should,--his wife temperately, his handmaid compliantly, …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 16:3 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 33–36)

    "And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abraham had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife." And of Keturah, whom he took after Sarah's departure, we read, "Then again Abraham took a wife, whose name was Keturah." Lo!

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 16:9 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter II — 23-25; III. 1-5)

    … neck: for when, after being humiliated, she departed from her mistress, an angel met her, and said to her, "What is the matter with thee, Hagar, Sarah's handmaid?" When she complained of her mistress, what did she hear from the angel? "Return to thy mistress." It is for this that she is afflicted, that she may return; and would that …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)