1. Abram's wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,
2. and Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine.” Abram agreed,
3. and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years.
4. Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and was hateful to Sarai.
10-11. I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And later I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all.
15-16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.