5 So Sarai said to Abram: “This outrage against me is your fault. I myself gave my maid to your embrace; but ever since she knew she was pregnant, I have lost stature in her eyes. May the Lord decide between you and me!”
6 Abram told Sarai: “Your maid is in your power. Do to her what you regard as right.” Sarai then mistreated her so much that Hagar ran away from her.
7 The Lord’s angel found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur,
8 and he asked, “Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She answered, “I am running away from my mistress, Sarai.”
9 But the Lord’s angel told her: “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.
10 I will make your descendants so numerous,” added the Lord’s angel, “that they will be too many to count.”
11 Then the Lord’s angel said to her:“You are now pregnant and shall bear a son;you shall name him Ishmael,For the Lord has heeded your affliction.