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Hagar fleeth from Sarai.

In the ame day the made a covenant with Abram, aying, Unto thy eed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgahites, and the Jebuites.

1 Sarai being barren giveth Hagar to Abram. 4 Hagar being conceived depieth her mitres, and being harhly treated runneth away. 7 An angel endeth her back to ubmit herelf, and informeth her of her on's fortunes. 15 Ihmael is born.

Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and he had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whoe name was Hagar.

And Sarai aid unto Abram, Behold now, the hath retrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may † obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

¶ And he went in unto Hagar, and he conceived: and when he aw that he had conceived, her mitres was depied in her eyes.

And Sarai aid unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy boom; and when he aw that he had conceived, I was depied in her eyes: the judge between me and thee.

But Abram aid unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her † as it pleaeth thee. And when Sarai † dealt hardly with her, he fled from her face.

¶ And the angel of the found her by a fountain of water in the wildernes, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And he aid, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camet thou? and whither wilt thou go? And he aid, I flee from the face of my mitres Sarai.

And the angel of the aid unto her, Return to thy mitres, and ubmit thyelf under her hands.

And the angel of the aid unto her, I will multiply thy eed exceedingly, that it hall not be numbered for multitude.

And the angel of the aid unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and halt bear a on, and halt call his name ‖ Ihmael; becaue the  hath heard thy affliction.

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be againt every man, and every man's hand againt him; and he hall dwell in the preence of all his brethren.

And he called the name of the that pake unto her, Thou God eet me: for he aid, Have I alo here looked after him that eeth me?

Wherefore the well was called ‖ Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadeh and Bered.

¶ And Hagar bare Abram a on: and Abram called his on's name, which Hagar bare, Ihmael.

And Abram was fourcore and ix years old, when Hagar bare Ihmael to Abram.

1 God reneweth his covenant with Abram. 5 Abram's name is changed in token of greater bleings. 9 Circumciion is intituted. 15 Sarai's name is changed, and Iaac, with the bleing of a numerous iue, promied her. 23 Abraham, his on Ihmael, and all his men-ervants are circumcied.

when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the appeared to Abram, and aid unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou ‖ perfect.

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, aying,

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou halt be a father of † many nations.

¶ Neither hall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name hall be ‖ Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings hall come out of thee.

And I will etablih my covenant between me and thee and thy eed after thee in their generations for an everlating covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy eed after thee.

And I will give unto thee, and to thy eed after thee, the land † wherein thou art a tranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlating poeion; and I will be their God.