Genesis 16:1-16
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Hagar and Ishmael (1-16)
16 Sarai, waef blo Abram no garem eni pikinini, bat hem garem wanfala servant from Egypt, wea nem blo hem Hagar.
2 So Sarai sei lo Abram: “Plis lisin lo mi! Jehovah no letem mi for garem eni pikinini. Plis iu sleep witim servant blo mi. Maet hem savve garem pikinini for mi.” So Abram lisin lo Sarai.
3 Bihaen Abram stap lo land lo Canaan for tenfala year, Sarai, waef blo Abram givim servant blo hem, Hagar, wea kam from Egypt, lo hasband blo hem Abram olsem waef blo hem.
4 So Abram sleep witim Hagar and hem babule. Taem Hagar savve hem babule, hem start for ting daonem boss blo hem, Sarai.
5 So Sarai sei lo Abram: “Nogud samting wea Hagar duim lo mi hem rong blo iu. Mi nao givim servant blo mi lo iu bat taem hem savve hem babule, hem start for ting daonem mi. Jehovah nao bae judge between mi and iu.”
6 So Abram sei lo Sarai: “Lukim! Iu nao boss lo servant blo iu. Duim eniting lo hem wea iu laekem.” Then Sarai duim samting for mek shame lo Hagar, and Hagar ranawe from hem.
7 Gogo, angel blo Jehovah meetim hem lo wanfala well lo wilderness, followim road wea go lo Shur.
8 And hem sei: “Hagar, servant blo Sarai, iu stap kam lo wea ia, and wea nao iu go?” So Hagar sei: “Mi ranawe from boss blo mi, Sarai.”
9 Then angel blo Jehovah sei lo hem: “Iu go bak lo boss blo iu and hambol for obeyim hem.”
10 Then angel blo Jehovah sei: “Bae mi mekem olketa pikinini* blo iu for barava staka gogo bae olketa staka tumas for kaontem.”
11 Angel blo Jehovah sei moa: “Iu babule nao ia, and bae iu bornem wanfala son, and bae iu nemim hem lo Ishmael* bikos Jehovah herem krae blo iu lo disfala hard taem wea kasem iu.
12 Ishmael bae olsem wild donkey.* Hem bae againstim evriwan and evriwan bae againstim hem, and hem bae stap opposite lo evri brata blo hem.”*
13 Then Hagar praisem* nem blo Jehovah, wea story lo hem. Hagar sei: “Iu God wea lukim evri samting,” bikos hem sei: “Mi lukim nao God wea lukim mi!”
14 Dastawe olketa nemim datfala well lo Beer-lahai-roi,* wea stap between Kadesh and Bered.
15 Gogo, Hagar bornem wanfala son for Abram, and Abram nemim son wea Hagar bornem lo Ishmael.
16 Abram hem 86 years old taem Hagar bornem Ishmael.
Olketa footnote
^ Heb., “seed.”
^ Mining blo hem “God Herem.”
^ Or, “onager,” wanfala type wild donkey. Bat samfala tingse hem zebra. Maet disfala toktok hem minim samwan wea no savve followim toktok.
^ Or maet, “and hem bae evritaem raoa witim evri brata blo hem.”
^ Heb., “kol lo.”
^ Mining blo hem “Well blo [God] wea Laef wea Lukim Mi.”
