Phyllis Trible's The Story of Hagar

(1) Sarai, wife of Abram, had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian slavegirl named Hagar.

(2) And Sarai said to Abram, “Look, pray, the Eternal has kept me from bearing. Pray, come into my slavegirl; perhaps I shall be built up through her.” And Abram heeded Sarai’s request.

(3) So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian—after Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan ten years—and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

(4) He came [to bed] with Hagar and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress seemed slight in her eyes.

(5) And Sarai said to Abram, “This outrage against me is because of you! I myself put my slavegirl in your embrace; now that she sees that she is pregnant, I became slight in her eyes. Let the Eternal judge between you and me!” (6) And Abram said to Sarai, “Your slavegirl is in your hands. Do with her what is right in your eyes.” And Sarai harassed her, and she fled from her.

(7) An angel of the Eternal found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur, (8) and said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.”

(9) And the angel of the Eternal said to her, “Return to your mistress, and suffer abuse at her hand.”

(10) And the angel of the Eternal said to her,
“I will surely multiply your seed,
And it will be beyond all counting.”

(11) The angel of the Eternal said to her further,
“Look, you have conceived and will bear a son

and you will call his name Ishmael,

for the Eternal has heeded your suffering.

And he will be a wild ass of a man-

his hand against all, the hand of all against him,

he will encamp in despite of all his kin."
(13) And she called the name of the Eternal who spoke to her, “You Are El-roi,” by which she meant, “Did I not go on seeing after He saw me!”^-d (14) Therefore the well is called Beer-lahai-roi; it is between Kadesh and Bered.— (15) And Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram gave the son that Hagar bore him the name Ishmael. (16) Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

(9) Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing (laughing).

(10) And she said to Abraham, “Drive out that slave-woman and her son, for the slavewoman's son shall not inherit with my son, with Isaac.”

(11) And the thing seemed evil in Abraham's eyes because of his son.

(12) And God said to Abraham, “Let it not seem evil in your eyes on account of the lad and on account of your slavewoman; whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for through Isaac shall your seed be acclaimed.

(13) But the slave-woman's son, too, I will make a nation, for he is your seed.”

(14) And Abraham arose early in the morning and took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, placing them on her shoulder, and he gave her the child, and sent her away. And she went wandering in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

(15) And when the water in the skin was gone, she flung the child under one of the bushes, (16) and went off and sat down at a distance, a bowshot away; for she thought, “Let me not see when the child dies.” And she sat at a distance and raised her voice and wept.

(17) God heard the voice of the boy, and an God's messenger called out from the heavens to Hagar and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

(18) Come, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

(19) Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and let the boy drink. (20) God was with the boy and he grew up; he dwelt in the wilderness and became a seasoned bowman. (21) He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife from the land of Egypt.