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Genesis 16

Gen 16:1-16—The birth of Ishmael.

Gen 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Hagar

Hagar is a type of the law "which gendereth to bondage" (Galatians 4:24, 25).

Gen 16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

angel [See also Gen 16:9-11.]

Scofield Hebrews 1:4, note

Gen 16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

Ishmael

i.e. God shall hear.

Gen 16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Beerlahairoi

i.e. The well of him that liveth and seeth me. Genesis 24:62; 25:11.

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