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Genesis 16:10

and the Messenger of YHWH says to her, “Multiplying I multiply your seed, and it is not numbered from multitude”;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

In Context

9And the Messenger of YHWH says to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hands”;

11and the Messenger of YHWH says to her, “Behold you [are] conceiving, and bearing a son, and have called his name Ishmael, for YHWH has listened to your affliction;

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Cross References

Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes does he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

Genesis 21:16And she goes and sits by herself opposite [him], far off, about a bow-shot, for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of the boy”; and she sits opposite [him], and lifts up her voice, and weeps.

Genesis 22:15And the Messenger of YHWH calls to Abraham a second time from the heavens,

Genesis 31:11and the Messenger of God says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here I [am].

Genesis 48:15And he blesses Joseph and says, “God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac habitually walked: God who is feeding me from my being to this day:

Judges 2:1And the Messenger of YHWH goes up from Gilgal to Bochim,

Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:8-10

7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. Here is the first mention we have in scripture of an angel's appearance. Hagar was a type of the law, which was given by the disposition of angels; but the world… Read the whole commentary →

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