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10-11 I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael,[a] because I have heard your cry for help. And someday I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all. 12 But your son will live far from his relatives; he will be like a wild donkey, fighting everyone, and everyone fighting him.”

13 Hagar thought, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?”[b] So from then on she called him, “The God Who Sees Me.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 16.10,11 Ishmael: In Hebrew “Ishmael” sounds like “God hears.”
  2. 16.13 Have … it: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  3. 16.13 The God Who Sees Me: Or “The God I Have Seen.”

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