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.
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.
15-16. Hagar gave Abram a son. Abram named him Ishmael. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave him his son, Ishmael.