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The Lord’s angel found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur,
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But the Lord’s angel told her: “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.
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I will make your descendants so numerous,” added the Lord’s angel, “that they will be too many to count.”
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Then the Lord’s angel said to her: “You are now pregnant and shall bear a son; you shall name him Ishmael, For the Lord has heeded your affliction.
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Chapter 19
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The two angels reached Sodom in the evening, as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to greet them; and bowing down with his face to the ground,
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As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, “Come on! Take your wife with you and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
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God heard the boy’s voice, and God’s angel called to Hagar from heaven: “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not fear; God has heard the boy’s voice in this plight of his.
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But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
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“Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the angel. “Do not do the least thing to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you did not withhold from me your son, your only one.”
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A second time the angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven
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The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, and who confirmed by oath the promise he made to me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants’—he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son there.
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he replied: ‘The Lord, in whose presence I have always walked, will send his angel with you and make your journey successful, and so you will get a wife for my son from my own family and my father’s house.
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Then he had a dream: a stairway rested on the ground, with its top reaching to the heavens; and God’s angels were going up and down on it.
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In the dream God’s angel said to me, ‘Jacob!’ and I replied, ‘Here I am!’
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Meanwhile Jacob continued on his own way, and God’s angels encountered him.
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The angel who has delivered me from all harm, bless these boys That in them my name be recalled, and the names of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, And they may become teeming multitudes upon the earth!”