Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
- BSB And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
- NKJV So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
- NASB So Hagar bore a son to Abram; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael.
- NLT So Hagar gave Abram a son, and Abram named him Ishmael.
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- Gen 25:12Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
- Gen 37:27Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
- Gen 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
- Gen 17:18Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
- 1 Chr 1:28The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
- Gen 17:25–26Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Gen 16:11Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
- Gen 28:9Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
- Gen 21:9–21Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
- Gen 25:9Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
- Gal 4:22–23For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
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