It seems as if a rapid deployment first-edit is what is needed here, and later we will go through the whole MVP with a large number of revisions. In that sense, we may be able to get a ramshackle book of Genesis up and running and then refine it pass by pass; this may be easier and cleaner than the way I was doing it previously.
1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray you, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall [a]obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.”
3 And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, “I made a mistake; I gave my handmaid to you, and when she saw that she had conceived, she began to disrespect me. The LORD will judge between me and you.”
6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Yes, but she is your maid; you may do with her as you see fit.” So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness; by the fountain in the way to Shur.
8 And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, where did you come from, and where did you go? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, “I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.”
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, “Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; and you shall call his name [b]Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction.
12 And he shall be as donkey wild among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell [c]over against all his brethren.”
13 And she called the name of the LORD that spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me;” for she said, “Have I even looked for him that sees me?”
14 Therefore the well was called [f]Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bare “Ishmael”.
16 And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
[2a] Hebrew ‘be builded by her.’
[11b] That is, ‘God hears’
[12c] Or, to the east of
[13] Or, ‘You, God, sees me’. Hebrew ‘El roi, that is, God of seeing.’
[14f] lit. ‘The well of the living one who sees me.’