Genesis 16:1-16
The Birth of Ishmael
16:1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.
16:3 So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife.
16:4 He had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.
16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the Lord judge between you and me!”
16:6 Abram said to Sarai, “Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.
16:7 The Lord’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur.
16:8 He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.”
16:9 Then the Lord’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.
16:10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.”
16:11 Then the Lord’s angel said to her,
“You are now pregnant
and are about to give birth to a son.
You are to name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard your painful groans.
16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man.
He will be hostile to everyone,
and everyone will be hostile to him.
He will live away from his brothers.”
16:13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”
16:14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)
16:15 So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.
16:16 (Now Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)
Genesis 4:7
4:7 Is it not true
that if you do what is right, you will be fine?
But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching
at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”
Genesis 4:18
4:18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father
of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
Exodus 30:10
30:10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement;
once in the year
he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the
Lord.”
John 17:19
17:19 And I set myself apart
on their behalf,
so that they too may be truly set apart.
Hebrews 2:11
2:11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin,
and so
he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
Hebrews 5:7-8
5:7 During his earthly life
Christ
offered
both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.
5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.
Hebrews 9:22-23
9:22 Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
9:23 So it was necessary for the sketches
of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices,
but the heavenly things themselves required
better sacrifices than these.