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He said, “Go back to her and be her slave.” 10 Then he said, “I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them. 11 You are going to have a son, and you will name him Ishmael,[a] because the Lord has heard your cry of distress.

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  1. Genesis 16:11 This name in Hebrew means “God hears.”

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