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And Sara said to Abram: Behold, the Lord has shut me up from bearing; go in therefore to my maidservant, that you may have children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sara.
And Sara, Abram's wife, took Agar the Egyptian, her own maidservant, after ten years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife.
And Sara said to Abram: I am wronged by you; I gave my maidservant into your bosom, but when she saw that she was with child, I was dishonored before her. May God judge between me and you.
And Abram said to Sara: Behold, your maidservant is in your hands; deal with her as it may be pleasing to you. And Sara afflicted her, and she ran away from her presence.
And the angel of the Lord said to her: Agar, maidservant of Sara, from where do you come, and where are you going? And she said: I am running away from the presence of Sara my mistress.
And the angel of the Lord said to her: Behold, you are with child and shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Ismael, because the Lord has listened to your humiliation.
He shall be a rustic man; his hands shall be against all, and the hands of all against him; and he shall dwell over against the face of all his brothers.
And Agar called the name of the Lord who spoke to her: You are the God who looked upon me; for she said: For indeed before me I saw him who appeared to me.