13 So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,”[a] for she said, (A)“Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”[b] 14 Therefore the well was called (B)Beer-lahai-roi;[c] it lies between (C)Kadesh and Bered.

15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:13 Or You are a God who sees me
  2. Genesis 16:13 Hebrew Have I really seen him here who sees me? or Would I have looked here for the one who sees me?
  3. Genesis 16:14 Beer-lahai-roi means the well of the Living One who sees me

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