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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Genesis sixteen.
- 0:03SPEAKER_00: Hagar the servant girl.
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: Sarai was Abram's wife, but she did not have any children.
- 0:12SPEAKER_00: She had an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
- 0:16SPEAKER_00: Sarai told Abram, The Lord has not allowed me to have children.
- 0:22SPEAKER_00: So sleep with my slave.
- 0:24SPEAKER_00: Maybe she can have a son, and I will accept him as my own.
- 0:30SPEAKER_00: Abram did what Sarai said, so after living ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai gave her Egyptian slave to Abram as a second wife.
- 0:44SPEAKER_00: Abram slept with Hagar and she became pregnant.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: When Hagar realized this, she became very proud and began to feel that she was better than Sarai, her owner.
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: Then Sarai said to Abram, My slave girl now hates me, and I blame you for this.
- 1:05SPEAKER_00: I gave her to you and she became pregnant.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: Then she began to feel that she is better than I am.
- 1:13SPEAKER_00: I want the Lord to judge which of us is right.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: But Abram said to Sarai, she is your slave, she can do you can do anything you want to her.
- 1:26SPEAKER_00: So Sarai was cruel to Hagar, and Hagar ran away.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: Hagar's son Ishmael The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert.
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: The spring was by the road to Shur.
- 1:46SPEAKER_00: The angel said, Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, why are you here?
- 1:54SPEAKER_00: Where are you going?
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: Hagar said, I am running away from Sarai.
- 2:00SPEAKER_00: The angel of the Lord said to her, Sarai is your owner, go home to her and obey her.
- 2:08SPEAKER_00: The angel of the Lord also said, From you will come many people, too many to count.
- 2:16SPEAKER_00: Then the angel of the Lord said, Hagar, you are now pregnant, and you will have a son, you will name him Ishmael because the Lord has heard that you were treated badly.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: Ishmael will be wild and free like a wild donkey.
- 2:38SPEAKER_00: He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him.
- 2:45SPEAKER_00: He will move from place to place and camp near his brothers.
- 2:50SPEAKER_00: The Lord talked to Hagar.
- 2:53SPEAKER_00: She began to use a new name for God.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: She said to him, You are the God who sees me.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: She said this because she thought I see that even in this place God sees me and cares for me.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: So the well there was called Bir Lahi Roy.
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: It is between Kadesh and Bared.
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: Hagar also gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram named the son Ishmael.
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: Abram was eighty six years old when Ishmael was born from Hagar.