Genesis 16

Question 1

Genesis 16:1

Answer 1

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;

Question 2

Genesis 16:2

Answer 2

so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Question 3

Genesis 16:3

Answer 3

So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

Question 4

Genesis 16:4

Answer 4

He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

Question 5

Genesis 16:5

Answer 5

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

Question 6

Genesis 16:6

Answer 6

“Your servant is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

Question 7

Genesis 16:7

Answer 7

The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

Question 8

Genesis 16:8

Answer 8

And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

Question 9

Genesis 16:9

Answer 9

Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”

Question 10

Genesis 16:10

Answer 10

The angel added, “I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.”

Question 11

Genesis 16:11

Answer 11

The angel of the LORD also said to her: “You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.

Question 12

Genesis 16:12

Answer 12

He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Question 13

Genesis 16:13

Answer 13

She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

Question 14

Genesis 16:14

Answer 14

That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi ; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

Question 15

Genesis 16:15

Answer 15

So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

Question 16

Genesis 16:16

Answer 16

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.