Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for I will make him a great nation.
But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation: because he is thy seed.
And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,
And behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.