And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid 1st, This was to check her pride. Though she was Abram's wife, yet he calls her Sarai's maid, to humble her. 2d, It was a rebuke to her flight. Sarai's maid ought to be in Sarai's tent, and not wandering in the wilderness. Whence camest thou? Consider that thou art running away both from the duty thou wast bound to, and the privileges thou wast blest with, in Abram's tent. She said, I flee from the face of my mistress She acknowledges her fault in fleeing from her mistress; and yet excuses it, that it was from the face, or displeasure, of her mistress. And the angel said, Return to thy mistress Go home and humble thyself for what thou hast done amiss, and resolve for the future to behave thyself better.
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Genesis 16:8-9
8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.