Genesis Chapter 16 (NASB)
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Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no [children], and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
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So Sarai said to Abram, 'Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing [children]. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.' And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
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He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
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And Sarai said to Abram, 'May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me.'
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But Abram said to Sarai, 'Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight.' So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.
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Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
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He said, 'Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from and where are you going?' And she said, 'I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.'
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Then the angel of the LORD said to her, 'Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.'
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Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, 'I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.'
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The angel of the LORD said to her further, 'Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.
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'He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand [will be] against everyone, And everyone's hand [will be] against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers.'
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Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, 'You are a God who sees'; for she said, 'Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?'
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Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
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