⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

⁹ And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?

¹⁰ And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

⁴ If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

⁴ And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

¹⁹ Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

¹⁷ Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

¹⁸ And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

⁵ Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

⁶ Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

⁷ Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

⁸ In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

¹ Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.

² And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.