Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.
And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.
And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.