Monday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. 2Verse 2. 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.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3Verse 3. 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. 4Verse 4. And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 5Verse 5. 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.” 6Verse 6. “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. 7Verse 7. Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert — the spring along the road to Shur. 8Verse 8. “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied. 9Verse 9. So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.” 10Verse 10. Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.” 11Verse 11. The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction. 12Verse 12. He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” 13Verse 13. 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!” 14Verse 14. Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered. 15Verse 15. And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

25Verse 25. When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation. 26Verse 26. Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period. 27Verse 27. Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening. 28Verse 28. When a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. 29Verse 29. On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 30Verse 30. The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge. 31Verse 31. You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.