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Genesis 16:8-16 Good News Bible (GNB)

8. and said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”She answered, “I am running away from my mistress.”

9. He said, “Go back to her and be her slave.”

10. Then he said, “I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them.

11. You are going to have a son, and you will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cry of distress.

12. But your son will live like a wild donkey; he will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will live apart from all his relatives.”

13. Hagar asked herself, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?” So she called the Lord who had spoken to her “A God who Sees”.

14. That is why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered “The Well of the Living One who Sees Me”.

15. Hagar bore Abram a son, and he named him Ishmael.

16. Abram was 86 years old at the time.

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