As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”