1-2. Sarai, Abram’s wife, hadn’t yet produced a child.She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, “God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her.” Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.
5. Sarai told Abram, “It’s all your fault that I’m suffering this abuse. I put my maid in bed with you and the minute she knows she’s pregnant, she treats me like I’m nothing. May God decide which of us is right.”
6. “You decide,” said Abram. “Your maid is your business.”Sarai was abusive to Hagar and Hagar ran away.
13. She answered God by name, praying to the God who spoke to her, “You’re the God who sees me!“Yes! He saw me; and then I saw him!”
14. That’s how that desert spring got named “God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring.” That spring is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.