Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Genesis 16:12-16 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

12. Ishmael will be wild and free like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will move from place to place and camp near his brothers.”

13. The Lord talked to Hagar. She began to use a new name for God. She said to him, “You are ‘God Who Sees Me.’” She said this because she thought, “I see that even in this place God sees me and cares for me!”

14. So the well there was called Beer Lahai Roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered.

15. Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram named the son Ishmael.

16. Abram was 86 years old when Ishmael was born from Hagar.