10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”(A)

11 The angel of the Lord(B) also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.(C)
You shall name him(D) Ishmael,[a](E)
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.(F)
12 He will be a wild donkey(G) of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
    toward[b] all his brothers.(H)

13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,(I)” for she said, “I have now seen[c] the One who sees me.”(J) 14 That is why the well(K) was called Beer Lahai Roi[d];(L) it is still there, between Kadesh(M) and Bered.

15 So Hagar(N) bore Abram a son,(O) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(P) to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old(Q) when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears.
  2. Genesis 16:12 Or live to the east / of
  3. Genesis 16:13 Or seen the back of
  4. Genesis 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.

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