⁷The Messenger of the Lord found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the way to Shur. ⁸He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave, where have you come from, and where are you going?”

She answered, “I’m running away from my owner Sarai.” ⁹The Messenger of the Lord said to her, “Go back to your owner, and place yourself under her authority.” ¹⁰The Messenger of the Lord also said to her, “I will give you many descendants. No one will be able to count them because there will be so many.” ¹¹Then the Messenger of the Lord said to her,

“You are pregnant,

and you will give birth to a son.

You will name him Ishmael ^[God Hears^[,

because the Lord has heard your cry of distress.

¹²He will be as free and wild as an untamed donkey.

He will fight with everyone, and everyone will fight with him.

He will have conflicts with all his relatives.”

¹³Hagar named the Lord, who had been speaking to her, “You Are the God Who Watches Over Me.” She said, “This is the place where I watched ⸤the one⸥ who watches over me.” ¹⁴This is why the well is named Beer Lahai Roi ^[Well of the Living One Who Watches Over Me^[. It is still there between Kadesh and Bered.

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Genesis 16:11: And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction.

Footnotes

[Proper names or foreign words whose meaning is significant for understanding a particular Bible passage are translated in brackets following the name or phrase