Genesis 16:10
8 “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
9 So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
11 The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
- KJV
- And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
- WEB
- The LORD’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
- ASV
- And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
- DARBY
- And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
- BLB
- And the angel of YHWH said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed, and it shall not be counted for multitude.”
- ÅB
- Og Herrens engel sa til henne: Jeg vil gjøre dine etterkommere så tallrike at de ikke skal kunne telles for mengde.
- OTB
- Engelen la til: "Jeg vil i stor grad øke dine etterkommere så de blir for tallrike til å telle."
- B1930
- Og Herrens engel sa til henne: Jeg vil gjøre din ætt så tallrik at den ikke skal kunne telles for mengde.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
Read in contextGenesis 21:18
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
Read in contextGenesis 21:13
But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Read in contextGenesis 25:12–18
This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
Read in contextGenesis 22:15–18
And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
Read in contextActs 7:30–38
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
Read in contextJohn 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
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