Si Hagar at si Ishmael
1Si Sarai na asawa ni Abram ay hindi magkaanak. May alipin siyang babae na taga-Egipto na ang pangalan ay Hagar. 2Sinabi ni Sarai kay Abram, “Dahil hindi pinahintulutan ng Panginoon na magkaanak ako, mabuti pa sigurong sumiping ka sa alipin kong babae, baka sakaling magkaroon tayo ng anak sa pamamagitan niya.”
Pumayag si Abram sa sinabi ng kanyang asawa. 3Kaya ibinigay ni Sarai si Hagar kay Abram para maging asawa nito. (Nangyari ito matapos manirahan si Abram sa Canaan ng sampung taon.) 4At nagbuntis nga si Hagar.
Nang malaman ni Hagar na buntis siya, hinamak niya si Sarai. 5Dahil dito, sinabi ni Sarai kay Abram, “Ngayong buntis na si Hagar hinahamak na niya ako. Ikaw ang dapat sisihin. Ibinigay ko siya sa iyo at ikaw dapat ang sumaway sa kanya. Ang Panginoon na ang humatol kung sino sa atin ang tama.”
6Sumagot si Abram, “Kung ganoon, ibabalik ko siya sa iyo bilang alipin mo at bahala ka kung ano ang gusto mong gawin sa kanya.” Simula noon, hindi naging maganda ang pakikitungo ni Sarai kay Hagar, kaya lumayas na lamang ito.
7Nakita si Hagar ng anghel ng Panginoon doon sa bukal ng tubig sa ilang. Ang bukal na ito ay malapit sa daan na papuntang Shur. 8Tinanong siya ng anghel, “Hagar, alipin ni Sarai, saan ka ba nanggaling at saan ka pupunta?”
Sumagot siya, “Lumayas po ako sa amo kong si Sarai.”
9Sinabi ng anghel sa kanya, “Bumalik ka sa amo mo at magpakumbaba ka sa kanya.” 10Pagkatapos, sinabi pa ng anghel,
“Pararamihin ko ang lahi mo na ang dami nilaʼy hindi mabibilang.”
11At sinabi pa ng anghel ng Panginoon sa kanya,
“Buntis ka na at hindi magtatagal ay magkakaanak ka ng lalaki. Pangangalanan mo siyang Ishmael,16:11 Ishmael: Ang ibig sabihin, nakikinig ang Dios. dahil pinakinggan ng Panginoon ang pagtawag mo sa kanya dahil sa iyong pagtitiis.
12Pero ang anak mo ay mabubuhay na katulad ng isang asnong-gubat. Kakalabanin niya ang lahat, at ang lahat ay lalaban sa kanya. Kahit ang mga kamag-anak niya ay lalaban sa kanya.”
13Tinawag ni Hagar na “Dios na Nakakakita” ang pangalan ng Panginoon na nakipag-usap sa kanya, dahil sinabi niya, “Tunay bang nakita ko ang Dios na nakakakita sa akin sa lugar na ito?” 14Iyon ang bukal na naroon sa gitna ng Kadesh at Bered na tinatawag na Beer Lahai Roi.16:14 Beer Lahai Roi: Ang ibig sabihin, Balon ng buhay na Dios na nakakakita sa akin.
15Bumalik si Hagar kay Sarai, at dumating ang panahon na nanganak siya ng isang lalaki. Pinangalanan ni Abram ang bata na Ishmael. 16Nasa 86 na taong gulang si Abram nang ipinanganak si Ishmael.
Hagar and Ishmael
1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 5Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
6“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
7The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
9Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
11The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,16:11 Ishmael means God hears.
for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward16:12 Or live to the east / of all his brothers.”
13She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen16:13 Or seen the back of the One who sees me.” 14That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
15So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. 16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
