Get up! Lift the boy up, and hold on to him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
Then the angel of Adonai said to her, “I will bountifully multiply your seed, and they will be too many to count.”
Then the angel of Adonai found her by the spring of water in the wilderness, next to the spring on the way to Shur.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. See, I have blessed him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him very very much. He will father twelve princes and I will make him a great nation.
Yet I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, because he is your seed.”
But the angel of Adonai called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!” He said, “Hineni!”