Sarai Abrams wyfe bare him no childerne.
But she had an hand mayde
an Egiptian / whose name was Hagar.
Wherfore the sayde vnto Abram. Beholde
the LORde hath closed me / that I can not bere.
I praye the goo in vnto my mayde / peradu&ebar;ture
I shall be multiplyed by meanes of her And
Abram herde the voyce of Sarai. Than Sarai
Abrams wife toke Hagar hyr mayde the Egitian
(after Abram had dwelled .x. yere in the lande
of Canaan) and gaue her to hyr husbonde
Abram / to be his wyfe.
And he wente in vnto Hagar / ∧ she conceaved.
And when she sawe that she had conceyved
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hyr mastresse was despised in hyr syghte. Than
sayd Sarai vnto Abram: Thou dost me vnrighte
/ for I haue geuen my mayde in to thy bosome:
∧ now because she seyth that she hath c&obar;ceaved /
I am despysed in hyr syghte: the LORde iudge
betwene the and me. Than sayde Abr&abar; to Sarai:
beholde / thy mayde is in thy hande / do with
hyr as it pleaseth the.
And because Sarai fared foule with her / she
fled from her. And the angell of the LORde
founde her besyde a fountayne of water in the
wyldernes: euen by a well in the way to Sur.
And he sayde: Hagar Sarais mayde / whence
comest thou and whether wylt thou goo ? And
she answered: I flee from my mastresse Sarai.
And the angell of the LORde sayde vnto her:
returne to thy mastresse agayne / ∧ submytte thy
selfe vnder her handes.
And the angell of þe; LORde sayde vnto her:
I will so encrease thy seed / that it shall not
be numbred for multitude. And the LORdes
angell sayd further vnto her: se / thou art wyth
childe and shalt bere a sonne / and shalt call
his name Ismael: because the LORDE hath
herde thy tribulation. He will be a wylde man
/ and his hande will be agenst every man /
∧ euery mans hande agenst him. And yet shall
he dwell faste by all his brothren.
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And she called the name of the LORde
that spake vnto her: thou art the God that lokest
on me / for she sayde: I haue of a suertie sene here
the backe parties of him that seith me. Wherfore
she called the well / the well of the lyuynge
that seith me which well is betwene Cades ∧
Bared.
And Hagar bare Abram a sonne / and Abram
called his sons name which Hagar bare
Ismaell. And Abram was .lxxxvi. yere olde /
when Hagar bare him Ismael.
Tyndale [1534], ¶ The newe Testament / dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale: and fynesshed in the yere of oure Lorde God A. M. D. ∧. xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember (, ANWERP) [word count] [B03000].
