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The Angel of the Lord said to her, “Go back to your mistress, and submit [a]humbly to her authority.” 10 Then 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 continued,

“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall name him Ishmael (God hears),
Because the Lord has heard and paid attention to your persecution (suffering).

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:9 Lit under her hands.

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