Hagar and Ishmael
1 Abram's wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar, 2 and Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine.” Abram agreed, 3 and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years. 4 Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and treated Sarai hatefully.
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “It's all your fault! I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant. You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the Lord for this.”
6 Abram said, “All right! She's your slave—do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.
7 Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur. While she was there, the angel of the Lord came to her 8 and asked, “Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
She answered, “I'm running away from Sarai, my owner.”
9 The angel said, “Go back to Sarai and be her slave. 10-11 I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And someday I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all. 12 But your son will live far from his relatives; he will be like a wild donkey, fighting everyone, and everyone fighting him.”
13 Hagar thought, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?” So from then on she called him, “The God Who Sees Me.” 14 That's why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered, “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”
15-16 Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.
Hagar naIsmael
1 Ndele Sarai, omwalikadi waAbram, ine mu dalela ounona. Ndele ye okwa li e na omupika Omuegipiti, edina laye Hagar. 2 Ndele Sarai okwa lombwela Abram ta ti: “Ove ou shi shii, Omwene ina pa nge oludalo.” Inda komupika wange. Kashiimba ohandi ka mona oludalo muye. Ndele Abram okwa itavela Sarai. 3 Opo nee Sarai, omwalikadi waAbram, okwa kufa Hagar omupika waye Omuegipiti, Abram eshi a kala omido omulongo medu laKaanan, ndele te mu pe omulumenhu waye Abram, a ninge omwalikadi waye. 4 Ndele ye okwa nangala naHagar, ndele ta ningi oufimba. Ndele ye eshi a mona nokutya, ye omufimba, okwa dina Sarai, omwene waye. 5 Ndele Sarai okwa lombwela Abram: “Odino ei handi dinwa nayo nai ku alukile! Aame mwene nda yandja omupika wange mekolo loye, ndele paife eshi a dimbulukwa kutya ye omufimba, ota tale nge nodino. Omwene na tokole pokati ketu naave.” 6 Ndele Abram okwa nyamukula Sarai: “Omupika woye oku li mepangelo loye, mu ningila ngaashi tashi ku wapalele.” Opo nee Sarai e mu monifa oixuna, ndele ye okwa dja po onhapo puye.
7 Ndele omweengeli wOmwene okwe mu mona e li pofifiya yomofuka, pofifiya pondjila yokuSur, 8 ndele okwa pula: “Hagar, omupika waSarai, owa dja peni, noto i peni?” Ndele ye okwa nyamukula ta ti: “Ohandi i onhapo yomwene wange Sarai.” 9 Opo nee omweengeli wOmwene okwe mu lombwela: “Shuna kumwene woye, ove u lininipikile epangelo laye.” 10 Omweengeli wOmwene okwe mu lombwela natango ta ti: “Ame ohandi ka hapupalifa oludalo loye, olo tali ka nyengana okuvalwa molwouhapu walo.” 11 Omweengeli wOmwene okwe mu lombwela yo ta ti: “Tala, ove oumufimba, ndele oto dala okaana okamati, ndele ou na oku ka luka Ismael, osheshi Omwene okwe ku uda moudjuu woye. 12 Ndele ye ota ka ninga omulumenhu ngaashi ofino: eke laye otali ka tanganana kwaaveshe, nomake aaveshe otaa ka tanganana kuye! Ndele ota ka kala e na ouyelani kovamwaxe aveshe.” 13 Ndele ye okwa luka edina lOmwene, ou a popya naye: “Oove Kalunga u wete nge.” Osheshi ye okwa ti: “Ame onda mona ou a vilola, ou e wete nge?” 14 Onghee hano ye okwa luka omufima: “Beer-Lahai-Roi, u li pokati kaKades naBered.”
15 Ndele Hagar okwa dalela Abram omona omumati. Ndele Abram okwa luka omona ou a dalwa kuHagar, Ismael. 16 Ndele omido daAbram oda li omilongo hetatu nahamano, eshi Hagar e mu dalela Ismael.
