Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Genesis 16:7-15-16 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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”.

15-16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.