Sarai Plan, Hagar Burden
Waiting fail, so Sarai give Hagar to Abram; belle turn to contempt, den to wicked treatment, and Hagar run. One messenger find her for one spring for desert, send her back wit promise about her pikin, and she name our Papa di One wey dey see her.
16 1Sarai, wey be Abram wife, no born any pikin for am. She get one Egypt servant wey im name na Hagar. 2Sarai tell Abram say, "Look am, our Papa no gree make I born pikin. Go sleep with my servant; maybe I go build family through am." Abram do wetin Sarai talk. a a v2 For dat culture, servant fit born pikin on behalf of di household, and dem go receive di pikin as di family own. 3After Abram don live for Canaan ten years, Sarai im wife take her Egypt servant Hagar give her husband Abram as wife. 4He sleep with Hagar; she carry belle, and wen she see say she don get belle, she begin look her madam down. 5Sarai tell Abram say, "Di wrong wey dey happen na for your head. Na me give my servant put for your arms; now wey she see say she get belle, she dey look me down. Make our Papa judge between me and you."
6Abram tell Sarai say, "Your servant dey for your hand; do am wetin good for your eye." Sarai treat her bad, and she run comot from her front.
7Di messenger of our Papa find Hagar for di spring for wilderness, di spring wey dey for di road wey dey go Shur. b b v7 Di messenger of our Papa dey speak as our Papa imself — e appear to Hagar for form wey she fit meet, hear, and answer.
8"Hagar, Sarai servant," e talk, "where you comot, and where you dey go?" "I dey run comot from my madam Sarai," she answer.
9"Go back to your madam," di messenger of our Papa tell am, "and bow under her authority." 10Di messenger of our Papa tell am say, "I go multiply your pikin-pikin dem until dem no fit count dem." 11Di messenger of our Papa still tell am say: "You don get belle now and you go born one boy pikin. You go call im name Ishmael, because I don hear your suffer. 12E go be like wild donkey for man, im hand go dey against everybody and everybody hand go dey against am, and e go live for fight with all im brothers."
13She call our Papa wey talk to her say, "You be El Roi—my God wey dey see me," because she talk say, "I don see di One wey dey see me now." 14Na dat one make dem call di well Beer-lahai-roi; e dey between Kadesh and Bered.
15So Hagar born one boy pikin for Abram, and Abram call di pikin wey she born Ishmael. 16Abram don reach eighty-six years wen Hagar born Ishmael for am.
