Genesis 16:9–16

9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”c

11 The angel of the Lordd also said to her:

“You are now pregnant

and you will give birth to a son.e

You shall name himf Ishmael,a g

for the Lord has heard of your misery.h

12 He will be a wild donkeyi of a man;

his hand will be against everyone

and everyone’s hand against him,

and he will live in hostility

towardb all his brothers.j”

13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,k” for she said, “I have now seenc the One who sees me.”l 14 That is why the wellm was called Beer Lahai Roid;n it is still there, between Kadesho and Bered.

15 So Hagarp bore Abram a son,q and Abram gave the name Ishmaelr to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years olds when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

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c	Ge 13:16
d	Ge 16:7 Ac 5:19
e	Ge 3:15
f	Ge 12:2–3 Ge 18:19 Ne 9:7 Is 44:1 Am 3:2 Mt 1:21 Lk 1:13 Lk 1:31
a	Ishmael means God hears.
g	Ge 17:19 Ge 21:3 Ge 37:25 Ge 37:28 Ge 39:1 Jdg 8:24
h	Ge 29:32 Ge 31:42 Ex 2:24 Ex 3:7 Ex 3:9 Ex 4:31 Nu 20:16 Dt 26:7 1 Sa 9:16
i	Job 6:5 Job 11:12 Job 24:5 Job 39:5 Ps 104:11 Je 2:24 Ho 8:9
b	Or live to the east / of
j	Ge 25:18
k	Ps 139:1–12
c	Or seen the back of
l	Ge 32:30 Ge 33:10 Ex 24:10 Ex 33:20 Ex 33:23 Nu 12:8 Jdg 6:22 Jdg 13:22 Is 6:5
m	Ge 16:7
d	Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.
n	Ge 24:62 Ge 25:11
o	Ge 14:7
p	Ge 16:1
q	Ge 21:9 Ga 4:22
r	Ge 17:18 Ge 25:12 Ge 28:9
s	Ge 12:4