OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 18

Genesis 21:18

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Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”

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Genesis 21:18 in context

Genesis 21:15–21

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The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.

16

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

17

God heard the voice of the boy.

The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

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Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”

19

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.

20

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.

21

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

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