Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Genesis 16:5-14 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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, and you can do whatever you want with her.” But 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 later 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”.