Genesis
16:1
Now Sarai, Avram’s wife, had not borne him
(children).The Genesis of Ethics: The Other Woman
Genesis
16:1
Now Sarai, Avram’s wife, had not borne him
(children).
She
had an Egyptian maid—her name was Hagar.
2
Sarai said to Avram:
Now
here, Yhwh has obstructed me from
bearing;
pray
come in to my maid,
perhaps
I may be built-up-with-sons through her!
Avram
hearkened to Sarai’s voice:
3
Sarai, Avram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian-woman, her maid,
at
the end of ten years of Avram’s being settled in the land of Canaan,
and
gave her to her husband Avram as a wife for him.
4
He came in to Hagar, and she became pregnant.
But
when she saw that she was pregnant, her mistress became of light-worth in her eyes.
5
Sarai said to Avram:
The
wrong done me is upon you!
I
myself gave my maid into your bosom,
but
now that she sees that she is pregnant, I have become of
light-worth in her eyes.
May
Yhwh see-justice-done between me and
you!
6
Avram said to Sarai:
Here,
your maid is in your hand, deal with her however seems good in your eyes.
Sarai
afflicted her, so that she had to flee from her.
7
But Yhwh’s messenger found her
by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
8
He said:
Hagar,
Sarai’s maid, whence do you come, whither are you going?
She
said:
I
am fleeing from Sarai my mistress.
9
Yhwh’s messenger said to her:
Return
to your mistress and let yourself be afflicted under her hand!
10
And Yhwh’s messenger said to
her:
I
will make your seed many, yes, many, it will be too many to count!
11
And Yhwh’s messenger said to
her:
Here,
you are pregnant,
you
will bear a son;
call
his name: Yishmael/God Hearkens,
for
God has hearkened to your being afflicted.
12
He shall be a wild-ass of a man,
his
hand against all, hand of all against him,
yet
in the presence of all his brothers shall he dwell.
13
Now she called the name of Yhwh,
the one who was speaking to her:
You
God of Seeing!
For
she said:
Have
I actually gone on seeing here
after
his seeing me?
14
Therefore the well was called:
Well
of the Living-One Who-Sees-Me.
Here,
it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15
Hagar bore Avram a son,
and Avram called the name of the son whom Hagar bore: Yishmael.
16
Avram was eighty years and six years old when Hagar bore Yishmael to Avram.
and
Genesis
18: 11
And Avraham and Sara were old, advanced in days,
the
way of women had ceased for Sara.
12 Sara laughed within herself, saying:
After I have become worn, is there to be pleasure for me? And my lord is old!
Translation: The Shocken Bible © Everett Fox