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Genesis 21:18
Arise, take vp the childe, and holde him in thine hand: for I will make of him a great people.
Genesis 21:18 · Geneva Bible
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Genesis 21:18 in other translations
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
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In context
15 And when the water of the bottell was spent, she cast the childe vnder a certaine tree.
16 Then she went and sate her ouer against him a farre off about a bowe shoote: for she said, I will not see the death of the child. and she sate downe ouer against him, and lift vp her voyce and wept.
17 Then God heard the voyce of ye childe, and the Angel of God called to Hagar from heauen, and said vnto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? feare not, for God hath heard the voyce of the childe where he is.
18 Arise, take vp the childe, and holde him in thine hand: for I will make of him a great people.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she sawe a well of water. so she went and filled the bottell with water, and gaue the boy drinke.
20 So God was with the childe, and he grewe and dwelt in the wildernesse, and was an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
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