Genesis

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Genesis 15:9
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'He said, “Bring me a three-year-old ment is your fault. I allowed you to embrace female calf, a three-year-old female goat, my servant, but when she realized she was a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pregnant, I lost her respect. Let the LORD pigeon.” He took all of these animals, split decide who is right, you or me." them in half, and laid the halves facing each Abram said to Sarai, “Since she's your other, but he didn't split the birds. "When servant, do whatever you wish to her.” So vultures swooped down on the carcasses, Sarai treated her harshly, and she ran away Abram waved them off. After the sun set, from Sarai. Abram slept deeply. A terrifying and deep The LORD's messenger found Hagar at a darkness settled over him.
spring in the desert, the spring on the road 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "Have to Shur, &and said, “Hagar! Sarai's servant! no doubt that your descendants will live as Where did you come from and where are immigrants in a land that isn't their own, you going?” where they will be oppressed slaves for four S he said, “From Sarai my mistress. I'm hundred years. But after I punish the na- running away." tion they serve, they will leave it with great 'The LORD's messenger said to her, “Go wealth. "As for you, you will join your an- back to your mistress. Put up with her harsh cestors in peace and be buried after a good treatment of you." "The LORD's messenger long life. 16 The fourth generation will return also said to her, here since the Amorites' wrongdoing won't “I will give you many children, have reached its peak until then."
so many they can't be counted!" 17 After the sun had set and darkness had The LORD's messenger said to her, deepened, a smoking vessel with a fiery “You are now pregnant flame passed between the split-open ani- and will give birth to a son. mals. 18 That day the LORD cut a covenant You will name him Ishmaely with Abram: "To your descendants I give because the LORD has heard about this land, from Egypt's river to the great your harsh treatment. Euphrates, together with the Kenites, the 2 He will be a wild mule of a man; Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, he will fight everyone, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amo- and they will fight him. rites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and He will live at odds the Jebusites."
with all his relatives."
13 Hagar named the LORD who spoke to Hagar and the Ishmaelites' origins her, “You are El Roi” because she said, “Can 1 Sarai, Abram's wife, had not been able I still see after he saw me?"Y 14Therefore,
Oto have children. Since she had an that well is called Beer-lahai-roi;? it's the Egyptian servant named Hagar, Sarai said well between Kadesh and Bered. 15Hagar to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from giv- gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram ing birth, so go to my servant. Maybe she named him Ishmael. 16 Abram was 86 years will provide me with children." Abram did old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for just as Sarai said. 'After Abram had lived Abram. ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant Hagar God's covenant with Abraham and gave her to her husband Abram as his 17When Abram was 99 years old, the wife. “He slept with Hagar, and she became 17 LORD appeared to Abram and said to pregnant. But when she realized that she him, “I am El Shaddai." Walk with me and was pregnant, she no longer respected her be trustworthy. ?I will make a covenant mistress. Sarai said to Abram, “This harass- between us and I will give you many, many
: 'Or God hears WOr he will live at odds with all his kin; or he will reside near all his relatives *Or God who sees or God
whom I've seen 'Heb uncertain; or Have I really seen God and survived? Or the Well of the Living One who sees me O or whom I've seen "Or God Almighty or God of the Mountain