1 Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't been able to have any children for him. However, she owned a female Egyptian slave named Hagar, 2 so Sarai said to Abram, “Please listen to me. The Lord hasn't let me have any children. So please go and sleep with my slave. Maybe I can have a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai had suggested. 3 So Sarai, Abram's wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband as his wife. Abram had been living in the land of Canaan for ten years when this happened. 4 Abram slept with Hagar and she became pregnant. When she realized she was pregnant, she treated her mistress with contempt. 5 Then Sarai complained to Abram, “What I'm suffering is all your doing! I gave you my servant to sleep with, and now that she knows she's pregnant, she treats me with contempt. May the Lord decide who's at fault—you or me!” 6 “Listen, she's your slave!” Abram replied. “You can do whatever you want to her.” Sarai treated Hagar so badly that she ran away. 7 The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert—the spring on the road to Shur. 8 He asked her, “Hagar, Sarai's slave—where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I'm running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied. 9 “Go back to your mistress and do what she tells you,” the angel of the Lord told her. 10 Then he continued, “I will give you many, many descendants—in fact they'll be so many they can't be counted.” 11 The angel of the Lord went on to tell her: “Listen! You're pregnant, and you will have a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard how you've suffered. 12 He'll be a wild donkey kind of man—he will fight with everyone, and everyone will fight with him. He will forever be fighting with his relatives.” 13 From then on Hagar called the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” because she said, “Here I saw the one who sees me.” 14 That's why the well is called “the Well of the Living One who Sees Me.” It's still there, between Kadesh and Bered. 15 Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram. Abram named his son Ishmael. 16 Abram was 86 when Hagar had Ishmael.
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Personas y lugares de este capítulo
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Personas
Abraham
Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 12–25
Hagar
Sarah's Egyptian servant who bore Ishmael and met God in the wilderness.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 16, 21
Ishmael
Abraham's son by Hagar, blessed by God to become a great nation.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 16; 17:20; 21; 25:12–18
Referencias cruzadas (15)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Gálatas 4:24; Génesis 12:16; Génesis 15:2–3; Génesis 21:9–10; Génesis 21:12
- 2 Génesis 18:10; Génesis 3:17; Éxodo 21:4; Génesis 25:21; Génesis 20:18
- 3 Génesis 16:5; Génesis 12:4–5; 2 Samuel 5:13; Génesis 25:6; Génesis 30:9
- 4 2 Samuel 6:16; Proverbios 30:23; 1 Samuel 1:6–8; 1 Corintios 13:4–5; Proverbios 30:20–21
- 5 Génesis 31:53; Éxodo 5:21; Lucas 10:40–41; Salmo 7:8; 1 Samuel 24:12–15
- 6 Jeremías 38:5; Job 2:6; Proverbios 14:29; Salmo 106:41–42; 1 Pedro 3:7
- 7 Éxodo 15:22; Génesis 25:18; Génesis 21:17; Proverbios 15:3; Génesis 31:11
- 8 Génesis 3:9; Génesis 4:10; Eclesiastés 10:4; Jeremías 2:17–18; Efesios 6:5–8
- 9 1 Pedro 5:5–6; Eclesiastés 10:4; Efesios 5:21; 1 Pedro 2:18–25; Efesios 6:5–6
- 10 Génesis 17:20; Salmo 83:6–7; Génesis 21:18; Génesis 21:13; Génesis 25:12–18
- 11 Éxodo 2:23–24; Éxodo 3:7; Isaías 7:14; Génesis 17:19; Génesis 41:51–52
- 12 Génesis 25:18; Génesis 21:20; Job 39:5–8; Génesis 27:40; Job 11:12
- 13 Salmo 139:1–12; Génesis 32:30; Proverbios 15:3; Proverbios 5:21; Génesis 16:7
- 14 Génesis 25:11; Génesis 24:62; Números 13:26; Génesis 21:31; Génesis 14:7
- 15 Génesis 25:12; Génesis 28:9; Génesis 17:18; 1 Crónicas 1:28; Génesis 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, …
Leer en contexto · 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!
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)