◄ Genesis 21:13 ►
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Good News Translation
I will also give many children to the son of the slave woman, so that they will become a nation. He too is your son."

New Revised Standard Version
As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring.”

Contemporary English Version
but the son of the slave woman is also your son, and I will make his descendants into a great nation."

New American Bible
As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, since he too is your offspring.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

Genesis 21:18 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 16:10 And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 17:20 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.

Genesis 25:12-18 These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him: . . .

Context
Sarah Turns Against Hagar
…12And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 13But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.14So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.…
Cross References
Genesis 16:10
And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

Genesis 21:18
Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 25:12
These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:

Genesis 21:12
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