Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian servant, and her name was Hagar.
2Sarai said to Abram, “Look, Yahweh has kept me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. Maybe I will be built up through her.” Abram listened to Sarai’s voice.
3Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. She saw that she had conceived, and her mistress became light in her eyes.
5Sarai said to Abram, “The wrong done to me is on you. I gave my servant into your arms, and she sees that she has conceived, and I am light in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”
6Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your servant is in your hand. Do to her what is good in your eyes.” Sarai humbled her, and she fled from her face.
7The messenger of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
8He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
9The messenger of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hands.”
10The messenger of Yahweh said to her, “I will make your offspring very many, so many they cannot be counted.”
11The messenger of Yahweh said to her, “Look, you are pregnant, and you will bear a son. You shall name him Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
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Ishmael is “God hears.” The reason in the sentence is “Yahweh has heard.” The name and the reason are both kept.
12He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him. He will dwell in the face of all his brothers.”
13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are El-roi,” for she said, “Have I really seen, here, the one who sees me?”
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El-roi is “God of seeing,” or “God who sees me.” The next clause is hard: “have I even here seen the back of the one who sees me?” The printed line keeps the seeing and does not add a back that the words only half show. The exact last words are uncertain.
14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. Look, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.