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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 16
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    "n": 16,
    "bookSlug": "genesis",
    "bookCode": "GEN",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "Hagar and the birth of Ishmael + the angel at the well",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-16:1",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.1",
        "text": "Now Sarai, Abram`s wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-16:2",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.2",
        "text": "And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-16:3",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.3",
        "text": "And Sarai, Abram`s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-16:4",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.4",
        "text": "And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-16:5",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.5",
        "text": "And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into they bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-16:6",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.6",
        "text": "But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-16:7",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.7",
        "text": "And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-16:8",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.8",
        "text": "And he said, Hagar, Sarai`s handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-16:9",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.9",
        "text": "And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-16:10",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.10",
        "text": "And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-16:11",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.11",
        "text": "And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-16:12",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.12",
        "text": "And he shall be [as] a wild ass among men; his hand [shall be] against every man, and every man`s hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-16:13",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.13",
        "text": "And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto her, Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-16:14",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.14",
        "text": "Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-16:15",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.15",
        "text": "And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-16:16",
        "verseRef": "Gen.16.16",
        "text": "And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram."
      }
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