¹ Now Sarai (Sarah), Abram (Abraham)’s woman, had not borne him any children. She had an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar. ² Sarai said to Abram, "Look, Yahuah (Yah) has kept me from having children. Please, go and sleep with my handmaid. It may be that I can build a family through her." Abram listened to what Sarai said. ³ After Abram had lived in the land of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Kena'an" title="Means 'lowland' or 'merchant.' Son of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Cham" title="Means 'hot' or 'burnt.' The second son of Nuach (Noah). Father of Kush (Ethiopia/Africa), Mitsrayim (Egypt), Phut (Libya/North Africa), and Kena'an. Ancestor...">Cham, grandson of Nuach. Ancestor of the Canaanite nations who occupied the land promised to Yashar'el. Pronounced: Keh...">Kena'an (Canaan) for ten years, his woman Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his woman. ⁴ He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized she was pregnant, she began to look at her mistress with contempt. ⁵ Then Sarai said to Abram, "I’m suffering this wrong because of yourself! I gave my handmaid into yourself arms, and now that she knows she’s pregnant, she looks at me with contempt. May Yahuah (Yah) judge between yourself and me." ⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, "Look, yourself handmaid is in yourself hands. Do to her whatever yourself think is best." Then Sarai treated her so harshly that Hagar fled from her. ⁷ The malak (messenger) of Yahuah (Yah) found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur. ⁸ He asked, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where have yourself come from and where are yourself going?" She answered, "I’m running away from my mistress Sarai." ⁹ The malak of Yahuah (Yah) said to her, "Return to yourself mistress and submit yourself to her authority." ¹⁰ The malak of Yahuah (Yah) also said to her, "I will multiply yourself descendants so much that they'll be too many to count." ¹¹ Then the malak of Yahuah (Yah) said to her, "Look, yourself are pregnant and will give birth to a son. Yourself will name him Yishma'el (Ishmael), because Yahuah has heard about yourself suffering. ¹² He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand will be against him. He will live in the presence of all his relatives."