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10 The Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants, so that they will be too many to count.” 11 The Angel of the Lord said to her, “Listen, you are expecting a child and will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael,[a] because the Lord has heard your affliction. 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will dwell in hostility toward[b] all of his brothers.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:11 In Hebrew Ishmael sounds like God heard.
  2. Genesis 16:12 Or far away from