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.
10-11. I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And later I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all.
15-16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.