1 Saray, esposa de Abram, no le daba hijos. Pero ella tenía una esclava egipcia cuyo nombre era Agar. 2 Y Saray dijo a Abram: Mira, Yavé me impidió tener hijos. Te ruego que te unas a mi esclava. Quizás los obtenga de ella. Y Abram escuchó la voz de Saray. 3 Y después de diez años de vivir Abram en la tierra de Canaán, su esposa Saray tomó a Agar, su esclava egipcia, y la dio como mujer a su esposo Abram. 4 Él se unió a Agar y [ella] concibió. Sin embargo, cuando vio que concibió, miraba con desprecio a su señora. 5 Entonces Saray dijo a Abram: ¡Mi afrenta sea sobre ti! Yo puse a mi esclava en tu seno, y ella, al ver que está embarazada, me mira con desprecio. Juzgue Yavé entre tú y yo. 6 Abram contestó a Saray: Mira, tu esclava está en tus manos. Haz con ella lo que te parezca bien. Entonces Saray la afligió, y ella huyó de su presencia. 7 Pero el Ángel de Yavé la halló junto a un pozo de agua en el desierto, junto al pozo que está en el camino de Shur, 8 y le dijo: Agar, esclava de Saray, ¿de dónde vienes y a dónde vas? Ella respondió: Huyo de la presencia de mi señora Saray. 9 Entonces el Ángel de Yavé le dijo: Vuelve a tu señora y humíllate bajo sus manos. 10 Y le dijo el Ángel de Yavé: Multiplicaré inmensamente tu descendencia, y debido a su multitud, no se podrá contar. 11 El Ángel de Yavé también le dijo: Mira, estás embarazada y darás a luz un hijo. Lo llamarás Ismael, porque Yavé escuchó tu aflicción. 12 Él será un hombre como el asno salvaje. Su mano estará contra todos, Y la mano de todos contra él. Vivirá enfrentado a todos sus hermanos. 13 Y le dio a Yavé, Quien hablaba con ella, este nombre: Tú eres el ʼEL-que-me-ve, porque dijo: ¿No vi aquí yo la espalda de Aquél que me ve? 14 Por eso llamó al pozo: Pozo del Viviente-que-me-ve. Ahí está entre Cades y Bered. 15 Agar dio a luz un hijo a Abram, y Abram llamó Ismael al hijo que Agar le dio a luz. 16 Abram tenía 86 años cuando Agar le dio a luz a Ismael.
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Abraham
Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12–25
Hagar
Sarah's Egyptian servant who bore Ishmael and met God in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 16, 21
Ishmael
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
Cross references (15)
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- 1 Galatians 4:24; Genesis 12:16; Genesis 15:2–3; Genesis 21:9–10; Genesis 21:12
- 2 Genesis 18:10; Genesis 3:17; Exodus 21:4; Genesis 25:21; Genesis 20:18
- 3 Genesis 16:5; Genesis 12:4–5; 2 Samuel 5:13; Genesis 25:6; Genesis 30:9
- 4 2 Samuel 6:16; Proverbs 30:23; 1 Samuel 1:6–8; 1 Corinthians 13:4–5; Proverbs 30:20–21
- 5 Genesis 31:53; Exodus 5:21; Luke 10:40–41; Psalm 7:8; 1 Samuel 24:12–15
- 6 Jeremiah 38:5; Job 2:6; Proverbs 14:29; Psalm 106:41–42; 1 Peter 3:7
- 7 Exodus 15:22; Genesis 25:18; Genesis 21:17; Proverbs 15:3; Genesis 31:11
- 8 Genesis 3:9; Genesis 4:10; Ecclesiastes 10:4; Jeremiah 2:17–18; Ephesians 6:5–8
- 9 1 Peter 5:5–6; Ecclesiastes 10:4; Ephesians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:18–25; Ephesians 6:5–6
- 10 Genesis 17:20; Psalm 83:6–7; Genesis 21:18; Genesis 21:13; Genesis 25:12–18
- 11 Exodus 2:23–24; Exodus 3:7; Isaiah 7:14; Genesis 17:19; Genesis 41:51–52
- 12 Genesis 25:18; Genesis 21:20; Job 39:5–8; Genesis 27:40; Job 11:12
- 13 Psalm 139:1–12; Genesis 32:30; Proverbs 15:3; Proverbs 5:21; Genesis 16:7
- 14 Genesis 25:11; Genesis 24:62; Numbers 13:26; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 14:7
- 15 Genesis 25:12; Genesis 28:9; Genesis 17:18; 1 Chronicles 1:28; Genesis 17:25–26
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… 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)
"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)
… 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)