The Angel of the LORD Appears to Hagar

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The angel of ADONAI found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur,

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and said, "Hagar! Sarai's slave-girl! Where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai."

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The angel of ADONAI said to her, "Go back to your mistress, and submit to her authority."

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The angel of ADONAI said to her, "I will greatly increase your descendants; there will be so many that it will be impossible to count them."

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The angel of ADONAI said to her, "Look, you are pregnant, and you will give birth to a son. You are to call him Yishma'el [God pays attention] because ADONAI has paid attention to your misery.

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He will be a wild donkey of a man, with his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, living his life at odds with all his kinsmen."

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So she named ADONAI who had spoken with her El Ro'i [God of seeing], because she said, "Have I really seen the One who sees me [and stayed alive]?"

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This is why the well has been called Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i [well of the one who lives and sees]; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

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