{
  "chapterNum": 16,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.”\n    \nAnd Abram listened to the voice of Sarai."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "Now the angel  of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?”\n    \n“I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "The angel of the LORD proceeded:\n    \n  “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son.\n    And you shall name him Ishmael,\n    for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "He will be a wild donkey of a man,\n    and his hand will be against everyone,\n    and everyone’s hand against him;\n  he will live in hostility\n    toward all his brothers.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him."
    }
  ]
}