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13 Hagar thought, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?”[a] So from then on she called him, “The God Who Sees Me.”[b] 14 That's why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered, “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”[c]

15-16 (A) Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.

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  1. 16.13 Have … it: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 16.13 The God Who Sees Me: Or “The God I Have Seen.”
  3. 16.14 The Well … Me: Or “Beer-Lahai-Roi” (see 25.11).

13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,(A)” for she said, “I have now seen[a] the One who sees me.”(B) 14 That is why the well(C) was called Beer Lahai Roi[b];(D) it is still there, between Kadesh(E) and Bered.

15 So Hagar(F) bore Abram a son,(G) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(H) to the son she had borne.

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  1. Genesis 16:13 Or seen the back of
  2. Genesis 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.