¹Zvino Sarai mukadzi waAbhuramu, waiva asingamuberekeri vana; uye waiva nemurandakadzi, muEgipita, zita rake riri Hagari.

¹Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

²Sarai ndokuti kuna Abhuramu: Tarira zvino, Jehovha wakandikonesa pakubereka, pinda hako kumura­ndakadzi wangu, zvimwe ndingawana vana naye. Abhuramu ndokuteerera shoko raSarai.

²Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

³Zvino Sarai mukadzi waAbhuramu wakatora Hagari muEgipita mura­ndakadzi wake, pakupera kwemakore gumi Abhuramu agere panyika yeKanani, ndokumupa kuna Abhuramu murume wake kuti ave mukadzi wake.

³Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

⁴Zvino wakapinda kuna Hagari, iye ndokutora mimba. Zvino wakati aona kuti wava nemimba, vatenzikadzi vake vakashoreka pameso ake.

⁴He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

⁵Zvino Sarai wakati kuna Abhuramu: Kukanganiswa kwangu kuri pamu­soro pako. Ndini ndakapa murandakadzi wangu pachipfuva chako, zvino paakaona kuti wava nemimba, ndinoshoreka pameso ake. Jehovha ngaatonge pakati pangu newe.

⁵Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”

⁶Asi Abhuramu wakati kuna Sarai: Ta­rira, murandakadzi wako uri paruoko rwako. Muitire zvakanaka pameso ako. Zvino Sa­rai wakamuomesera, akatiza pachiso chake.

⁶But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

⁷Mutumwa waJehovha akamuwana pachitubu chemvura murenje, pachutubu chiri panzira inoenda kuShuri.

⁷The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

⁸Zvino wakati: Hagari, murandakadzi waSarai, unobvepi, uye unoendepi? Iye ndokuti: Ndino­tiza pachiso chaSarai vatenzikadzi vangu.

⁸He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

⁹Mutumwa waJehovha ndokuti kwaari: Dzokera kuna vatenzikadzi vako, ugozvininipisa pasi pemaoko avo.

⁹The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

¹⁰Mutumwa waJehovha ndokuti kwaari: Ndichawanza zvikuru mbeu yako kuti isaverengwa nekuwanda.

¹⁰The angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.”

¹¹Mutumwa waJehovha akatiwo kwaari: Tarira, une mimba, uye uchabereka mwanakomana, ugotumidza zita rake kuti Ishimaeri, nekuti Jehovha wanzwa ku­tambudzika kwako.

¹¹The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

¹²Iye uchava mbizi yemunhu, ruoko rwake rwucharwisa munhu wose, neruoko rwemunhu wose rwuchamurwisa; uye uchagara pamberi pechiso chehama dzake dzose.

¹²He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.”

¹³Zvino akatumidza zita raJehovha wa­kataurirana naye kuti: Imwi Mwari wekuona. Nekuti wakati: Pano neni ndamutarisa here iye unondiona?

¹³She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

¹⁴Naizvozvo chitubu chakanzi Bheeriahiroi; tarira, chiri pakati peKa­dheshi neBheredhi.

¹⁴Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me.” Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵Hagari ndokuberekera Abhuramu mwanakomana; Abhuramu ndokutumidza zita remwanakomana wake, Hagari waakabereka kuti: Ishimaeri.

¹⁵Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

¹⁶Abhu­ramu waiva nemakore makumi ma­sere nematanhatu, Hagari paakaberekera Abhuramu Ishimaeri.

¹⁶Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.