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Genesis 16:1 to 16:16

1 And Princesse, Honored-Father's wife, did not bear him children. Now she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Flight.
2 And Princesse said to Honored-Father, "Behold now, Yahweh has closed me up; so I do not bear children. Cohabit, I ask you, with my maidservant: it may be that I may have children by her." And Honored-Father complied with the voice of Princesse.
3 After the ten years that Honored-Father had dwelt in the land of Canaan, Princesse, Honored-Father's wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Flight to her husband Honored-Father as his wife.
4 And he cohabited with Flight, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt at her mistress.
5 And Princesse said to Honored-Father, "This outrage is your fault! I myself put my maidservant into your lap; and now she sees that she has conceived, she looks at me with contempt. Yahweh judge between me and you!"
6 And Honored-Father said to Princesse, "Behold, your maidservant is in your hand: do to her what you will." And Princesse abused her harshly; and she fled from her face.
7 And the Messenger of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
8 And he said, "Flight, Princesse's maidservant, from where do you come? and to where do you go?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress, Princesse."
9 And the Messenger of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her hands."
10 And the Messenger of Yehweh said to her, "I will multiply your descendents exceedingly, they will be beyond counting."
11 And the Messenger of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name God-Hears, because Yahweh has heard of your affliction.
12 And he will be a wild-colt of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall camp before the face of all his kin."
13 And she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are El Roi, the El-God-of-Seeing-Who-Sees-Me." She said, "Did I really see God yet remain alive?"
14 Therefore the well was named Well-of-the-Living-One-Who-Sees-Me: Look, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Flight bore Honored-Father a son; and Honored-Father called the name of his son whom Flight bore, God-Hears.
16 And Honored-Father was eighty-six years old when Flight bore God-Hears to Honored-Father.

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