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Genesis 16:8-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. he said to her: "Hagar, handmaid of Sarai, where have you come from? And where will you go?" And she answered, "I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress."

9. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand."

10. And again he said, "I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude."

11. But thereafter he said: "Behold, you have conceived, and you will give birth to a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.

12. He will be a wild man. His hand will be against all, and all hands will be against him. And he will pitch his tents away from the region of all his brothers."

13. Then she called upon the name of the Lord who had spoken to her: "You are the God who has seen me." For she said, "Certainly, here I have seen the back of the one who sees me."

14. Because of this, she called that well: 'The well of the one who lives and who sees me.' The same is between Kadesh and Bered.

15. And Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, who called his name Ishmael.

16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for him.

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